Dual node network system and method

ABSTRACT

A dual node network system and method. An emperor node associated with prime nodes and adjunct nodes. Prime nodes are dual torrent nodes associated with individual users, having nodes A and B and may be associated with adjunct dual torrent nodes. An emperor node may be an emperor node of a separate network, referred to herein as an allied network and is in contact with other prime nodes. The present invention provides an organization of torrents to peer nodes, files shared, with whom the individual files are shared, and any limits places on files shared.

CROSS REFERENCING TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application61/798,773, filed Mar. 15, 2013, incorporated herein by reference in itsentirety.

FIELD OF THE DISCLOSURE

Embodiments of this disclosure relate generally to dual node networkingsolutions in which dual data streams are utilized to update nodes in anetwork of computing devices.

BACKGROUND OF THE DISCLOSURE

Current computer networks fail to incorporate a dual-node network systemand method for continuously updating nodes by torrent streams.

SUMMARY

Other embodiments, systems, methods, computer-readable media, aspects,and features of the invention will become apparent to those skilled inthe art from the following detailed description, the accompanyingdrawings, and the appended claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings, which are notnecessarily drawn to scale, and wherein:

FIG. 1 is a data flow diagram of the example system search engineutilizing the user based

context-aware document data.

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of an example architecture for asearch engine system with a distributed database

FIG. 3 is a representative method flowchart featuring the steps ofcreating user defined tags.

FIG. 4 is a representative method flowchart featuring the steps ofcreating sponsored tags.

FIG. 5 is a representative method flowchart featuring the steps ofcreating embedded tags.

FIG. 6 is a representative graphic user interface [GUI) that allows aregistered user to log in or a new user to register in the socialnetworking website.

FIG. 7 is a representative GUI after a registered user has logged in toprovide a starting point to utilize the social networking website'sfeatured functions.

FIG. 8 is a representative GUI of a registered user's profile page,which enables the user to work with tags, invite friends, create teams,and other social networking tasks.

FIG. 9 is a representative GUI of another registered user's page where auser can invite to his team and send or request tags.

FIG. 10 is sequence of steps showing how lexicon data is filtered forrelationship markers that exceed a threshold.

FIG. 11 is an illustration of how one stream in a two-part torrentstream updates the second stream.

FIG. 12 is an illustration of tags placed in a string.

FIG. 13 is a sequence of steps executed on a user device to request ananonymous ID.

FIG. 14 is an illustration of streams A and B forming an updatabletorrent stream.

FIG. 15 is an illustration of open and closed torrent streams between auser's devices and other users communicating with the user over acomputer network.

FIG. 16 is a representative GUI showing a plurality of torrents managedby a user.

FIG. 17 is a representation of a node network having an emperor node incommunication with other nodes.

FIG. 18 is a representation of an emperor node associated with primenodes and adjunct nodes.

FIG. 19 is a representation of decentralized network disengaged from anemperor node.

FIG. 20 is a representation of different devices used in a node networkhaving an emperor node.

FIG. 21 is a representation of different devices used in a node networkhaving an emperor node.

FIG. 22 is a representation of different devices used in a node networkhaving an emperor node.

FIG. 23 is a flow diagram depicting a user journey over a node network.

FIG. 24 is a representation of a helix architecture for a node networkof emperor nodes, prime nodes, and adjunct nodes.

FIG. 25 is a representation of a helix architecture for a node networkof emperor nodes, prime nodes, and adjunct nodes.

FIG. 26 is a representation of a helix architecture for a node networkof emperor nodes, prime nodes, and adjunct nodes.

FIG. 27 is a representation of prime nodes on different pitches of ahelix architecture for a node network.

FIG. 28 is a representation of prime nodes on different pitches of ahelix architecture for a node network.

FIG. 29 is a representation of prime nodes on different pitches of ahelix architecture for a node network.

FIG. 30 is a representation of prime nodes on different pitches of ahelix architecture for a node network.

FIG. 31 is a representation of prime nodes on different pitches of ahelix architecture for a node network.

FIG. 32 represents various file sharing details for different nodes onthe node network.

FIG. 33 represents various file sharing details for different nodes onthe node network.

FIG. 34 represents various file sharing details for different nodes onthe node network.

FIG. 35 represents various file sharing details for different nodes onthe node network.

FIG. 36 represents various file sharing details for different nodes onthe node network.

FIG. 37 represents message dissemination between various users on thenode network having different proxy levels.

FIG. 38 represents various data streams utilized in a tradingenvironment using the node network.

FIG. 39 represents various data streams utilized in a tradingenvironment using the node network.

FIG. 40 represents various data streams utilized in a tradingenvironment using the node network.

FIG. 41 represents a basic tool rose configuration having a socialnetwork messaging function.

FIG. 42 represents a basic tool rose configuration managing varioustypes of files.

FIG. 43 represents a flow diagram showing two users using instances ofthe tool rose and node network to share tagged files in a consumersetting where one user is shopping for a car.

FIG. 44 represents a three-dimensional version of the tool rose.

FIG. 45 represents a three-dimensional version of the tool rose.

FIG. 46 represents a basic tool rose configuration having an agingfunction.

FIG. 47 represents an illustration of a tool rose.

FIG. 48 represents a basic tool rose configuration having alogin/settings function.

FIG. 49 represents a basic tool rose configuration having a taggingfunction for tagging files.

FIG. 50 represents a basic tool rose configuration having a taggingfunction that includes emotional indicia to be associated with taggedfiles.

FIG. 51 represents a basic tool rose configuration having a taggingfunction that includes emotional indicia to be associated with taggedfiles.

FIG. 52 represents a tool rose having various types of tagging functionspresented to a user for tagging files.

FIG. 53 represents a tool rose having a search function that expands toallow a user a variety of different types of search functions.

FIG. 54 represents various additional search functions expanded from atool rose configured to provide standard and advanced search functionsfor files on a network.

FIG. 55 represents a display of search results returned by a tool rosehaving an ordered highlighting of search results.

FIG. 56 represents a display of search results returned by a tool rosehaving tags associated with the returned search results.

FIG. 57 represents a basic tool rose having numbered petals that areexpandable to additional displays.

FIGS. 58A and 58B represent a dual helical arrangement of tool rosesmanipulated on a touch display.

FIGS. 59A and 59B represent tool roses of various shapes and colorsarranged in a helical arrangement.

FIG. 60 represents tool roses in helical arrangements having a staggeredarrangement of monochrome to reduce eye strain.

FIG. 61 represents tool roses in helical arrangements having a staggeredarrangement of monochrome to reduce eye strain.

FIGS. 62A and 62 B represent a tool rose modifying a displayed pluralityof files to include tags placed by the tool rose.

FIG. 63 represents a tool rose selected from combined helixes of varioustool roses displayed on a touch screen to a user.

FIG. 64 represents a tool rose having various expandable tool rosescontained therein.

FIG. 65 represents associated tool roses displayed in alternatingmonochrome configurations to reduce eye strain.

FIG. 66 represents associated tool roses displayed in alternatingmonochrome configurations to reduce eye strain.

FIG. 67 represents associated tool roses displayed in alternatingmonochrome configurations to reduce eye strain.

FIG. 68 represents associated tool roses displayed in alternatingmonochrome configurations to reduce eye strain.

FIG. 69 represents associated tool roses displayed in alternatingmonochrome configurations to reduce eye strain.

FIG. 70 represents associated tool roses displayed in alternatingmonochrome configurations to reduce eye strain.

FIG. 71 represents associated tool roses displayed in alternatingmonochrome configurations to reduce eye strain.

FIG. 72 represents multiple helixes of tool roses intersecting whendisplayed to a user for selection.

FIG. 73 represents a website being reviewed with the helix structure oftool roses of FIG. 72 displayed to provide various editing and taggingfunctions to a user while reviewing the website.

FIG. 74 represents a tool rose having a pictorial display and variouslevels of functionalities included in layers around the pictorialdisplay.

FIG. 75 represents a tool rose having a pictorial display and variouslevels of functionalities included in layers around the pictorialdisplay.

FIG. 76 represents a tool rose having additional search capabilitiesincluding contextual search.

FIG. 77 represents a tool rose having a search capability based ondegrees of separation, profession type, emotion type, location type, andan expandable interaction space associated with the different searchtypes displayed.

FIG. 78 represents a dual-oscillating display of a pseudo random numbergenerator.

FIG. 79 represents an outer shell sieve filter used in connection withthe pseudo random number generator of FIG. 78.

FIG. 80 represents a tool rose integrated with other devices onto aglove worn on a human Hand.

FIG. 81 illustrates a human wearing a pendant and ear attachment thatconnect a user with the node network.

FIG. 82 represents the human ear.

FIG. 83 represents the ear attachment of FIG. 81.

FIG. 84 represents the pendant attachment of FIG. 81.

FIG. 85 represents interfaces presented to a user when reviewing animage showing items of interest to the user.

FIG. 86 represents a tool rose and other interfaces presented to a userwhen reviewing an image showing items of interest to a user.

FIG. 87 represents personalized links associated with images presentedto a user when reviewing images.

FIG. 88 represents personalized links associated with images presentedto a user when reviewing images.

FIG. 89 represents personalized links associated with images presentedto a user when reviewing images.

FIG. 90 represents personalized links associated with images presentedto a user when reviewing images.

FIG. 91 represents a deep focus camera capturing an image and incommunication with a computer and data store.

FIG. 92 represents multiple deep-focus cameras capturing images of asubject from different angles and in communication with a computer anddata store.

FIG. 93 represents a three-dimensional image of a human body andassociated documents.

FIG. 94 represents a three-dimensional image of a desk.

FIG. 95 represents multiple layers of screens positioned and aligned fordisplay of three-dimensional images.

FIG. 96 represents a section of an individual screen magnified using aspecific color to create a sense of depth to a user.

FIG. 97 represents a color table showing a listing of various colors andtheir respective frequencies and wavelengths.

FIG. 98 represents association of colors between multiple screens.

FIG. 99 represents a magnified section of a screen in FIG. 98 set in afive-point pattern to create a sense of depth.

FIG. 100 represents three screens aligned for display ofthree-dimensional images, an etching point, and a light source.

FIG. 101 represents a magnified section of one of the screens shown inFIG. 100.

FIG. 102 represents an augmented reality projection system havingaligned screens for display of three-dimensional images as well asplacement of deep focus projectors and scent delivery units in proximityto the aligned screen.

FIG. 103 represents a deep focus cube used in a film studio sound stage.

FIG. 104 represents a movable, three-dimensional camera cage or gridused for removal of the appearance of cameras placed in view of othercameras during image capture.

FIG. 105 represents a plan view of the camera cage of FIG. 104.

FIG. 106 represents placement of the deep focus projectors, scentdelivery units and aligned screens in proximity to a human viewer.

FIG. 107 represents a set of scent delivery units that communicate witheach other.

FIG. 108 represents a scent cartridge by itself and placed in amultiple-cartridge unit.

FIG. 109 represents a foil-backed scent cartridge and a backing platethat controllably releases scents from the scent cartridge.

FIG. 110 represents a multiple-cartridge unit of FIG. 108 also with thebacking plate of FIG. 109 and various other functional components.

FIG. 111A and FIG. 111B represent a scent broach having scent generationand other functional components.

FIG. 112 illustrates visualization of a tied link chain where links havea meta data tag of family birthdays.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Illustrative embodiments of the disclosure will now be described morefully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in whichsome, but not all embodiments of the disclosure are shown. Thedisclosure may be embodied in many different forms and should not beconstrued as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, theseembodiments are provided so that this disclosure will satisfy applicablelegal requirements. Like numbers refer to like elements throughout.

Embodiments of the disclosure now will be described more fullyhereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in whichembodiments of the invention are shown. The invention may, however, beembodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limitedto the embodiments set forth herein; rather, these embodiments areprovided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and willfully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art Likenumbers refer to like elements throughout.

Traditional web-searches have been relying heavily on automatedalgorithms for document mining and web-searching. They may utilizeheuristics related to keywords or strings inside web-based documents toidentify documents related to search terms. Some examples of theseheuristics may be utilizing a word frequency match between a search termand terms present in the document For example, if a user queries aweb-search engine with the term “Matrix”, the documents may beidentified based on the occurrence of the term “Matrix” within thewebpage documents.

These heuristic searches may not be able to differentiate semanticcontexts of various terms or perform semantic analysis regarding themeaning of specific terms. Therefore, referring back to the previousexample, the user may be querying for vastly different types ofdocuments. If the user is a mathematician, the word “Matrix” may be inreference to a rectangular array of numbers. If the user is a fan ofscience fiction, the word “Matrix” may reference a popular 1999 moviestarring Keanu Reeves. A web search engine utilizing only heuristics andstatistical algorithms may return irrelevant searches to many users.

These systems may not account for additional context or human knowledgeto personalize or customize the web search based on the needs of a user.For example, the best webpage for learning about mathematical matrixoperations may not rank highly on the search results of a traditionalsearch-based engine. The webpage might not contain the appropriate mettags or data for a traditional search engine to identify. Further, inthe set of all-internet users, people may have various expertise andspecialty for which they are better able to provide semanticunderstanding or contexts-based understanding.

These people may have unique knowledge about specific websites anddocuments. Therefore the knowledge encompassed by these experts” mayprovide for more relevant web search results that are customized for thepreferences of a user. The experts may encompass a broad range ofpatterns, preferences and skills that may be utilized and leveraged fora more satisfactory experience.

Embodiments of this disclosure provide for human-knowledge based taggingor identification of web documents. This knowledge may be utilized andrestricted based on community membership, contextual usage, social mediaconnectivity, ratings, emotions and other such contextual information.

In one example, an opera singer “Placido”, who comes from Spain may beinvited for an opera performance at the “Detroit Opera House.” Although,the area near Detroit Opera house is deemed emotionally “safe” byhuman-based experts of the city of Detroit, areas surrounding the operahouse can be rated anywhere from “Shady” to “very dangerous” by theselocal experts. If Placido wanted to try the local cuisine at arestaurant and uses a traditional search engines and inputs the terms“Michigan Cuisine” and “Detroit”, a top search result may include “8Mile Grill” and directions for the 8 Mile Grill through a road known asthe 8 mile road. However, there are certain parts of the 8 mile roadthat may be deemed dangerous, and an alternate route may be “safer” forPlacido. Traditional search engines would not be able to utilizeemotion-based understanding and therefore would be unequipped to answerPlacido's query.

However, if the search engine could tap into a local expert's knowledge,the local expert “Marshall” who is very familiar with Detroit andincredibly familiar with “8 Mile Road”, may be able to input hisknowledge of various sections of 8 mile with emotional ratings such as“Safe” and “unsafe.” Placido would be able to determine if therestaurant “8 Mile Grill” is in a safe neighborhood.

The invention includes a creating user-informed-customized tags. Themethod provides an ability to retrieve the tags from an online socialnetworking environment that supports tags re

Tags can be created by the user via the provider's user interface bydefining various tag parameters, e.g. name, graphic icon, etc. Thisinvention discloses a system and method for creating customized tagsthat represents personal characteristics and preferences, by users of asocial network website, to facilitate online social networking, as wellas advertisement method in the online social networking environment byusing sponsored tags.

Tags can be embeddable in that they could be inserted in a website GUIfor display by a user. Also, tags may have embedded contents, e.g. aphoto, a song, a location of a profile page, a shout out, an expressionof feelings, tags, or presents.

FIG. 1 is a data flow diagram of an example system for expert-informedinformation acquisition. In the example system, a website 106 may bevisited and viewed by individual user and their individual user devices104. Further, the website may be related to a topic have particularcontent Therefore, the content of the website 106 may be identifiedthrough the use of identifier tags. In the example system, the website106 may have an automated tagging or a system tag based on the words orother tokens utilized in the website. For example, if a website has textfor the words “fast ferry”, one can associate that with search queryrelating to a “ship”, for example. However, these automated system tagsmay not be able to provide semantic understanding of a particulardocument Further, users may browse a particular website and for thatparticular website 106 and may provide user-specific tagging. If manyusers from many different areas and expertise provide similar or sametags, then the websites 106 may have popular tags associated with manyusers. Further, users may have specific context or specific-user grouprelated terminology. For example, a group of marine engineers may beinterested in different information than a group of tourists who visit acruise. However, similar terminology maybe used on both websites.Therefore, while browsing, a group of marine engineers may addadditional context such as “engineering” or “ship design” as tags.However, these tags would not be equally applicable to all. Therefore,the user relationship tag may be restricted via user group. Finally, auser may provide his individual tag for specific information.

Further, the user specific tags may contain other information such as“emotion”. In operation A, with all of these tags, a user device, anapplication downloaded on the user device, a web-browser add-on may sendall these contextual tags to the search engine server 110. The serviceprovider system 110 may identify compare the query with a hierarchy ofuser-defined tags. This hierarchy may be based on user preferences andmay be prioritized based on privacy and group settings.

In operation B, a user device 104 may enter a search query. During thesearch query, the user may enter keywords, restrictions on relationshiptags. For example, if a user wants to utilize relationship tags bypeople who are directly connected to him on a social network, orcommunicatively connected to him directly the user would be able toenter such a restriction that only tags from people who have one degreeof separation would be utilized. Further, the user may have negativerefiners such as hiding search results that have already been seen bythe user, excluding websites with certain tags. For example, if a marineengineer did not want to view websites about “cruise lines”, the marineengineer may input a negative refiner such as “vacation” and this wouldremove all websites having an associated tag of “vacation.”

In operation C, based on the hierarchy and user-specific tags, theservice provider system 110 may output a search results based on theTAGs.

FIG. 2 a data hierarchy.

FIG. 3 depicts an illustrative system or architecture 300 in whichtechniques for providing suggestions based at least in part upon keywordanalysis may be implemented. In architecture 300, one or more users 102(e.g., account holders, guest users, etc.) may utilize user computingdevices 104(1)-(N) (collectively, user devices 104) may interact andreceive data from one or more search engine servers 110. In someexamples, the networks 108 may include any one or a combination ofmultiple different types of networks, such as cable networks, theInternet, wireless networks, cellular networks, and other private and/orpublic networks.

Turning to the contents of the user device 104 may be configured withone or more processors 302 configured to execute machine-readableinstructions. The processor 302 may include a central processing unit(CPU), a digital signal processing unit (DSP), a reduced-instruction setcomputer-processor (RISC), a complex-instruction set computer processor(CISC), a microprocessor, a microcontroller, a field-programmablegate-array (FPGA) or any such combination thereof. The processor 302,may be configured to execute program instructions or machineinstructions that may be stored in a memory 304.

The memory 304 may be any computer-readable medium, coupled to the oneor more processors 302, such as random access memory (“RAM”), read-onlymemory (“ROM”), and/or removable storage devices. The memory 2 xx maystore one or more program modules or program applications such as theuser-application 306 and a web-browser 308. The memory 308 may storedata files such as those related to a user's lexicon. Themachine-readable storage medium may include, but is not limited to, harddrives, floppy diskettes, optical disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, read-onlymemories (“ROMs”), random access memories (“RAMs”), EPROMs, EEPROMs,flash memory, magnetic or optical cards, solid-state memory devices, orother types of media/machine-readable medium suitable for storingelectronic instructions.

Turning to the contents of the memory 304, the memory may be store auser-application 306 to facilitate the interaction with the serviceprovider system 110. In some embodiments, the user application 306 maybe a proprietary application known as the “Tool Rose.” The userapplication 306 may be a platform specific application such as thatspecifically designed for a mobile phone or a tablet computer platform.Further, the user application 306 may be an add-on or a modification ofa web-browser application 308. Through the web-browser, the user mayview or interact with one or more websites documents 106. The userapplication 306 may allow the user to provide context related to thewebsite 106 to the service provider system 110. Further, the userapplication 306 may identify related web-sites through browsingpatterns, clicking patterns. Further, the user application 306 mayprovide validation of other users's tags and lexicon.

For example, in some examples a user may just browse the website 106 forinformation acquisition. In other examples of websites that may provideuser interaction data through the user application 306 may include anywebsite that supports user interaction. These may include socialnetworking sites, online retailers, informational sites, blog sites,search engine sites, news and entertainment sites, and so forth.Therefore, the user-related context data or context tags may includeword tags, emotional identifiers, subject matter tags, locationidentifiers, negative identifier tags etc.

In addition to monitoring user provided tags, the user application 306may provide interaction data and find related or associated users. Insome examples, the website 106 may host a social networking platform forinteracting with other users and/or sharing items. Based on thesecommunication patterns or social networking connections, the userapplication 306 may determine related users in various contexts. Forexample, a user could be a social networking identifier connection. Inother examples a related users could be related through similar browsingpatterns, similar tagging patterns, and similar negative identifiers.

The service provider 110 may receive data indicative of the interactionbetween the website 106 and the user through the user application 306 toidentify related users and also provide a shared lexicon among therelated users.

Further turning to the user application 306, in some examples, a user102 may log in or otherwise enter a session. The log-in may be based onreceipt of log-in credentials such as a user identifier (“ID”) and/or apassword. However, in some examples, the service provider may utilizecookies or some other state-verifying technique to determine that a user102 is still logged in or was last logged in from the same computingdevice such as, but not limited to, user device 104. Alternatively, orin addition, a user 102 may maintain a session over multiple log-ins,using multiple different user devices 104, and/or over a period of timethat may be longer than a typical web browser session. In some aspects,the events monitors 306A may be configured to keep track of actions,events, and/or occurrences associated with one or more session IDs, userIDs, web sessions, log-in sessions, and/or user accounts. As such, insome examples, the actions, events, and/or occurrences of a user 102 (ormultiple users) may be transmitted to the service provider system 110.Examples of such events may include purchases 312, keyword tags 314,user ratings 318 and validations etc. The service provider 110 mayutilize these events to identify additional related content and makesuggestions or recommendations to the user. The events monitor 306A maycontain a user interaction module to enable a user to set securitysettings.

Further turning to the contents of the memory 304, the query module 306Bmay be utilized for a user-query utilizing the user application 306. Inone example, the user may utilize data files such as a user-specificlexicon and context related to certain websites. The user may input alist of search parameters or query parameters that may include keywords.Further, during the search query, the user application 306 may transmiteither the user-specific lexicon or a unique identifier associated withthe user-specific lexicon to the service provider system 110.

In one non-limiting example, a user 102 may access a website 106 inconjunction with a user application 306 on one of the user devices 104.While accessing this website 106, the user may enter a query involvingkeywords to a service provider system 110. The user 102 may be presentedwith a graphical user interface (“GUI”)th may be configured to displayone or more query results. Further, the user may receive one or morerecommendations related to other search terms, or other related websitesthat may not be directly provided by the query.

In another non-limiting example, a user 102 may input an image into thequery module 306B. The service provider system 110 may receive theimage, identify context related to the image and output other images orother data in relation to the image.

Now, turning to the contents of the service provider system 110. Theservice provider system 110 may include any type of computing devicessuch as, but not limited to, mobile, desktop, thin-client, server,and/or cloud computing devices. In operation, service provider system110 may be configured to execute computer-executable instructions inorder to form a special-purpose computer or particular machine thatfacilitates context-based information acquisition. Operations forproviding context may be relationship analysis, graphing, keywordanalysis, and/or suggestion services. In some examples, the serviceprovider computers 110 may be in communication with one or more usersdevices, other service provider systems, social networking systems etc.via the networks 108, or via other network connections. In certainembodiments, the service provider system 110 may include one or moreservers, perhaps arranged in a cluster, as a server farm, or asindividual servers not associated with one another. These servers may beconfigured to host, receive, store, and/or process informationacquisition, file sharing, lexicon sharing, information crawling,relational tagging and other such services based on requests from theone or more service provider computers 110. Additionally, in someaspects, various services may be separate and distinct from one anotherand may also be provided through the user of one or more user devices104 in relation to the user application 306. For example, if a userbelongs to a particular user group that may have a shared lexicon inrelation to certain websites, this shared lexicon may be stored in anyof those user devices.

In one illustrative configuration, the service provider system 110 mayinclude at least one memory 328 and one or more processing units (orprocessor(s)) 320. In some examples, the processor(s) 320 may beimplemented as appropriate in hardware, software, firmware, orcombinations thereof. Various implementations of the processor 320 mayinclude computer-executable or machine-executable instructions writtenin any suitable programming language to perform the various functionsdescribed. The processor 320 may include a central processing unit(CPU), a digital signal processing unit (DSP), a reduced-instruction setcomputer-processor (RISC), a complex-instruction set computer processor(CISC), a microprocessor, a microcontroller, a field-programmablegate-array (FPGA) or any such combination thereof. The processor 320 maybe configured to execute program instructions or machine instructionsthat may be stored in a memory 328.

The memory 328 may store program instructions that are loadable andexecutable on the processors) 320 as well as data generated during theexecution of these programs. Depending on the configuration the memory328 may be volatile (such as random access memory (“RAM”)) and/ornon-volatile (such as read-only memory (“ROM”), flash memory, etc.). Theservice provider system 110 may also include additional storage 324,which may include removable storage and/or non-removable storage. Theadditional storage 324 may include, but is not limited to, magneticstorage, optical disks, and/or tape storage. The disk drives and theirassociated computer-readable media may provide non-volatile storage ofcomputer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules, andother data for the computing devices. In some implementations, thememory 122 may include multiple different types of memory, such asstatic random access memory (“SRAM”), dynamic random access memory(“DRAM”), or ROM.

Further, the service provider system 110 may contain one or moredatabases known as the lexicon repository database 310. This may containvarious tags, web-crawled websites, file-sharing, images, videos amongother things. Further, the lexicon repository 310 may be remotely hostedor stored locally.

The memory 328 and the additional storage 324, both removable andnon-removable, are all examples of computer-readable storage media. Forexample, computer-readable storage media may include volatile andnon-volatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in anymethod or technology for storage of information such ascomputer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules, orother data. The memory 328 and the additional storage 324 are allexamples of computer storage media.

The service provider system 110 may also contain communicationsconnection(s) 328 to communicate with stored databases, other computingdevices or servers, user terminals, and/or other devices on the networks108. The service provider system 110 may also include input/output(“I/O”) device(s) 322, such as a keyboard, a mouse, a pen, a voice inputdevice, a touch input device, a display, speakers, a printer, etc.

Turning to the contents of the memory 328 in more detail, the memory 328may include a wide variety of description data 338 and/or other storeddata (e.g., data files, profile information, etc.), an operating system(“OS”) 133, and one or more application programs or services forimplementing the features disclosed herein.

The description data 338 may include a wide variety of data associatedwith any number of data tag information, emotional identifiers,descriptors, restrictions, negative restrictions etc. item reviewinformation, item rating information, user profile information, etc. Inaddition to storing description data 338, in certain embodiments,historical information associated with events, actions, and/or otheruser interactions with various items may be stored. Indeed, a widevariety of information associated with items may be stored in the memory328. The OS 330 may include one or more suitable applications and/orprogram modules that facilitate the general operation of the serviceprovider computer 110, as well as the execution of one or more of theadditional application programs.

The memory 328 may also include a keyword module 342, which may includeany number of suitable applications and/or modules configured to performkeyword analysis on data and website documents. In operation, thekeyword module 342 may identify an item or a group of related topics forpurposes of performing a keyword analysis. A wide variety of suitabletechniques may be utilized to identify a group of related websites ordocuments. As one example, one or more websites 106 associated with userevents (e.g., selections, clicks, views, ratings, purchases, reviews,etc.) may be identified during a session or across multiple sessions. Incertain embodiments, the websites may be identified based upon theutilization of a filtering technique. As another example of identifyinga group of related websites, a graph or a subset of a generated graph(e.g., a content based graph, a collaborative filtering graph, a hybridgraph, etc.) may be identified. In certain embodiments, multiple groupsor clusters of related websites may be identified from a generatedgraph. As yet another example of identifying a relevant websites, a newwebsite to be added to an existing tag or lexicon.

Further, the above mentioned techniques utilized by the keyword module342 may also be utilized to identify similar users or userrelationships. The keyword module 342 may identify a group or relatedusers, based on associated user events and associated user-providedtags.

Once one or more groups of related websites have been identified,respective description data 132 or lexicon data associated with each ofthe websites may be accessed from memory 328 or obtained from any numberof data sources or other components of the architecture 100. Any numberof suitable information extraction techniques and/or evaluationtechniques, such as latent semantic analysis (“LSA”), heuristicinformation extraction algorithms (e.g., a term frequency-inversedocument frequency (“TF-IDF”) analysis, etc.) and/or data-driveninformation extraction algorithms, may then be utilized to evaluate thedescription information 338 or the related tag data, n certainembodiments, one or more terms and/or phrases included in thedescription data 132 for a website or in relation to a user group may beweighted for purposes of determining keywords for the item.Additionally, one or more identifiers may be located and utilized toidentify certain words and/or phrases to be weighted. For example, whenevaluating a movie, terms and/or phrases that specify a genre for themovie may be weighted. Similarly, when evaluating an apparel item, termsand/or phrases that specify, define, or describe a style for the itemmay be weighted. Additionally, in certain embodiments, certain termsthat commonly appear in the description data 132, such as “a,” “the,”and/or other relatively common terms, may be filtered from the keywordidentification analysis.

Additionally, one or more respective lists of common keywords that arerepresentative of each of the groups of related items may be determined.Any number of suitable evaluation techniques, such as a TF-IDF analysisand/or other suitable information extraction and/or evaluationtechniques (e.g., heuristic information extraction algorithms,data-driven information extraction algorithms, etc.), may be utilized todetermine a list of common keywords for a group. In certain embodiments,shared keywords between the various websites included in a group may beidentified. For example, a list of keywords for each website in a groupmay be compared in order to determine a list of common keywords for thegroup. In other embodiments, description data 338 for multiple websitesmay be evaluated utilizing a TF-IDF analysis (or other suitableanalysis) in order to identify keywords that are shared across thevarious users of the group. As desired, certain terms in the descriptiondata 338 for the items may be weighted during the analysis.Additionally, in certain embodiments, commonly appearing terms may befiltered from the analysis.

An example TF-IDF analysis may determine a number of times that variousterms appear in description data 338 for a website identified by aparticular user-group. A term frequency may be determined from thenumber of times that a term appears compared to a total number of termsin a document For example, if a particular term appear three times in a100 word document, then the term frequency may be calculated as (3/100)or 0.03. Additionally, the TF-IDF analysis may determine a number ofdocuments (e.g., description documents for various items) in whichvarious terms appear. An inverse document frequency may be calculatedfrom the number of documents in which a term appears. For example, if aterm appears in 10 out of 250 documents, then the inverse documentfrequency may be determined as the log (250/10) or approximately 1.4. ATF-IDF score for a term may then be determined based upon the termfrequency and the inverse document frequency. Utilizing the exampleabove, a TF-IDF score for a term may be calculated as the product of theterm frequency and the inverse document frequency. In other words, aTF-IDF score of 0.042 may be determined for a term. In certainembodiments, TF-IDF scores may be evaluated in order to determine oridentify common keywords or terms that are representative of a group ofitems.

These keywords that may be analyzed may be either “system tags” or“user-group tags.” These may be weighted accordingly based on thecontext of the search or information acquisition.

Once a list of common keywords has been determined or identified for agroup of related websites, or users, the list of common keywords or alsoknown as a lexicon may be utilized to generate or make a wide variety ofdifferent types of suggestions, such as clustering suggestions,suggestions for topics associated with the websites, items, and/orrecommendations of similar websites.

With continued reference to FIG. 3, the memory 328 may also include asuggestion module 336. In some aspects, the suggestion module 336 may beconfigured to provide suggestions and/or recommendations for users(e.g., a suggestion of a number of topics to use for a clusteringanalysis, etc.) and/or to a user 102 based on actions or events (e.g.,based on viewing, rating, purchasing, etc.) associated with theirinternet browsing and communication patterns. In certain embodiments,the suggestion module 336 may be configured to generate suggestion basedat least in part upon identified keywords tags or a similar lexicon. Asdesired, the suggestion module 336 may also utilize a purchase historyor other historical information during the generation of suggestion. Forexample, the suggestion module 336 may be configured to provide asuggestion (i.e., a list of similar items, a topic that the user 102 maybe interested in, etc.) to a user 102 in response to an action or eventIn other examples, the suggestion may be a general suggestion based onhabits, likes, or past purchases, or other historical and/or aggregatedinformation regarding the user 102.

A wide variety of different types of suggestion may be generated asdesired by the suggestion module 336. In certain embodiments, thesuggestion module 336 may evaluate respective lists of common keywordsassociated with various groups of items in order to determine a numberof topics to be utilized for a clustering technique, such as an LDAanalysis, a canopy clustering technique, a hierarchical clusteringtechnique (agglomerative, divisive, etc.), a centroid-based clusteringtechnique (e.g., k-means clustering, etc.), a distribution-basedclustering technique (e.g., Gaussian distribution, etc.), adensity-based clustering technique (e.g., density-based spatialclustering of applications with noise (“DBSCAN”), ordering points toidentify the clustering structure (“OPTICS”), etc.), a deterministicannealing clustering technique, etc. For example, a graph (e.g., acollaborative filtering graph, etc.) may be evaluated in order todetermine various subsets or clusters included in the graph. Respectivecommon lexicon may then be determined for each of the subsets or usergroups. A total number of identified common keywords may then becalculated across all of the subsets or all users based on overall usageor tagging patterns. The total number of keywords may then be utilizedto determine a number of topics, groups, or centers to be evaluatedduring the performance of a latent Dirichlet allocation (“LDA”) or othersuitable clustering technique. For example, a number of LDA topics forevaluating and forming clusters associated with an electronic catalogmay be determined.

For example, if a user were browsing an electronic shopping site, as anexample of generating a suggestion, an evaluation of keywords may beutilized to make suggestion and/or recommendations associated with newitems, such as new items to be added to an electronic catalog. Forexample, a description for a new item may be evaluated in order todetermine keywords associated with the new item. The keywords for thenew item may then be compared to respective lists of keywords associatedwith various groups of items (e.g., subsets of a graph, etc.) includedin the electronic catalog. Based upon determined correspondences and/orsimilarities between the keywords for the new item and the keywordsassociated with other items, one or more topics and/or categories thatbest fit the new item may be determined. Suggestions and/orrecommendations may then be made based at least in part upon thedetermined topics and/or categories. In this regard, suggestions and/orrecommendations may be made for new items without waiting to collecthistorical information (e.g., viewing information, rating information,purchase information, etc.) associated with the new items. Other typesof suggestion may be generated by the suggestion module 138 as desired.The described suggestion is provided by way of example only.

Further turning to the contents of the memory, an interaction dataacquisition module 348 may be configured to receive various events fromthe event module 306A from the user device 104 is configured to acquirethe interaction data 218. The interaction data acquisition module 248may be a stand-alone module or have functionality incorporated intoother modules. The interaction data acquisition module 348 may retrieveinteraction data 218 from other modules, devices, and so forth, or maygenerate interaction data. Interaction data 218 may includecommunication interactions between users 104, social networkinginteractions, similar interests and group memberships. The interactionmodule 348 may analyze the interaction data and provide a context forthe lexicon and the propagation of the lexicon to the users.

A relationship module 350 is configured to access interactioninformation 218. The relationship module 350 may determine relationshipdata associated with users 104. As used herein, “related” and“relationship” indicate an affiliation between two or more parties. Thisaffiliation may be legal (such as married spouses), filial (such assiblings), organizational (such as being members of the same club),professional, friendly, and so forth. Relationships may be defined byfrequency of contact, context of contact, duration of contact, or more.Relationships may be thus connections between users 104 which are ofsome particular significance to the participants. For example, a user104 may attribute much greater significance to a recommendation from afriend of many years than from a stranger on the street. Relationshipsmay also be dynamic and change over time.

The relationship module 350 may determine relationships through explicitinputs, such as entries within a social network, manual entry by theuser, and so forth. For example, a user 104 may enter user data aboutother members of the household and indicate the relationship such asspouse, child, parent, roommate, and so forth. In some implementations,this data may be derived or included as part of the user data that theuser 104 may provide during interaction with a merchant, another usersor utilization of the user application 306. For example, the user 104may set up an account with an online merchant and indicate that spouseuser 104 has equal rights to make account changes, to make purchases,and so forth while child users 104 and 104 may only add items to asuggested shopping or wish list Using this information, therelationships between these users as members of a family may bedetermined.

The relationship module 350 may also build relationship data usinginteraction data 218. An interaction between two or more users may beused to establish a relationship. For example, user 104 may shareinformation about a particular product, topic or webpage document withuser 104. This act of sharing may establish a relationship. Therelationship may be strengthened by the first user 104 replying back tothe second user 104.

A lexicon generation module 352 is stored in the memory 328 and isconfigured to identify and associate user-defined lexicon. The lexicongeneration module 352 is configured to access interaction data 218comprising interactions between one or more users 104 and one or morewebpages or documents. For example, data about interactions associatedwith a particular topic or subject may be accessed. The lexicongeneration module 352 determines a relationship between the one or moreusers and a target user 104. For example, the target user 104(1) isfriends with users 104(2), 104(3), and 104(4). Lexicon data isdetermined based at least in part on the interaction data 218 and thedetermined relationship(s) with the target user. Continuing the example,interactions such as users 104(2), 104(3), and 104(4) posting commentson a particular.

Further turning to the contents of the memory, based on receiving andidentifying the keywords, the service provider system 110 may beconfigured to storing a wide various of information may store a varietyof information such as that described below. The repository 310 maystore user data 214 about the users 104 including one or more of useridentifications, lexicon preferences, privacy settings, social networkdata, and so forth. This user data 214 may include relationship data,such as connections within a social network, user affiliations,user-group preferences, location information and so forth.

The user-defined lexicon data 216 may be stored. This may includesemantic data 216(1), negative filter data 216(2), ratings data 216(3),or a combination thereof. The semantic data 216(1) may include a specialdesignation, definitions, identification, mark, term, symbol, text,sound, image or other multimedia. The semantic data 216(1) may identifyone or more terms and associations for search results. The negativefilter data may also include exclusionary information regarding specialdesignations, definitions, identification, mark, term, symbol, text,sound image or other multimedia. The ratings data 216(3) may includedescriptions, characteristics, rankings, terms of use, and so forth.

Interaction data 218 may be stored in the repository 310. Theinteraction data 218 describes one or more interactions of one or moreusers 104 involving one or more of social networks or groupaffiliations. These interactions may include, but are not limited to,inquiries, page views, purchases, shares, replies, messages,recommendations, blog entries, or a combination thereof associated withthe one or more users. For example, the user 104(1) may be presentedwith a specific search term, click on a website in relation to the term,and proceed to view the website. The user 104(1) may then activate acommand to share that website with user 104(2) who is related to theuser 104(1), generating an interaction between users 104(1), 104(2), andthe website in relation to the specific term. In one implementation, theinteraction data 218 may comprise a message entered by one of the one ormore users 104.

The lexicon data 216 may adjusted based on a relationship marking or arelationship counter. The relationship detail may identify that thetarget user 104 is having at least a portion of the interaction with asubset of available users. Continuing the example, at least a portion ofthe comments posted by related users 104(2), 104(3), and 104(4) may bepresented. The relationship counter may indicate a number ofinteractions, such as messages, associated with the consumer object fromrelated users. The relationship counter may comprise a numericrepresentation of a value indicative of the strength of therelationship. Further, for a user, the relationship counter may beincreased or decreased based on a trust criteria. In otherimplementations non-numeric representations may be used. In one example,the relationship interactions may be symbolized by colors ortemperatures ranging from “hot to cold”, and these may be used a filterwith regards to the specific lexicon data. In some implementations, thelexicon data may be filtered based on interactions associated withparticular users 104 or groups of users.

In another implementation, the lexicon data 216 may be filtered toremove interactions which have aged beyond a pre-determined amount Forexample, the relationship counter may be configured to countinteractions which are less than two weeks old. As a result olderinteractions may be omitted from the count.

Further turning to the contents of the memory 328, the search querymodule 346 may be facilitated to provide results of relevant webpages106 or documents to a user. The search query module 346 may utilize datafiles from the repository, or alternatively retrieve data from the userapplication of the particular user 306 or related users. The lexicondata may provide various semantic tags 216 to identify the webpagedocuments. For example, lexicon data may location information for auser, tags indicating keywords, terms of arts, industry specific jargon,identifying visual information and audio information. Are examples ofuser-defined lexicon data 216 that may be utilized to identify andreturn queries based on user-specific lexicon. The lexicon data may bestored in advance in the query request.

Further referring to the search query module 346, it may receive a listof search parameters or query parameters input by a user seekingdocuments. These search or query parameters may include, but is notlimited to keywords, restrictions, negative identifiers or limitations,ratings etc. The search priorities may prioritize the results based ondifferent parameters in the order of preference by the user for example.

In one illustrative example, if a user has a negative filter set forparticular types of emotions or words, the negative filter may restrictall or a portion of the documents with tags that are identified by thesefilters.

The search query module 346 may provide contextual matching of thesearch parameters with the lexicon data and identify a list of webpagedocuments that satisfy these search parameters on the lexicon data.These identified web page documents may be transmitted or outputted fordisplay to the user device. The search query module 228 may output todisplay the web pages satisfying search or query parameters inputted bythe user, the presentation may further identify a rating, an expert,additional tags, emotions or negative emotions.

Further turning to the contents of the memory, in some examples, theaccount management module 334 may be configured to maintain, orotherwise store, account information associated with one or morerequested accounts. The account information may include account holderinformation, a user ID, a password, acceptable answers to challengequestions, etc. In this regard, users 102 may be authenticated whenaccessing and/or utilizing the website.

Additionally, during operation, the user application module 332 maycollect and/or track information associated with various user eventsand/or actions (e.g., clicks, reviews, ratings, etc.) associated withitems. In certain embodiments, the collected information may be storedin memory 328 and/or any number of suitable databases for subsequentevaluation by the service provider computers 110.

FIG. 4 is a representative method flowchart featuring the steps ofcreating user defined tags for a lexicon.

In operation 402, a user may utilize the user application 306 and theassociated GUI with the user application to provide an interaction tocreate user-defined lexicons or a user-specific tagging.

In operation 404, a user is provided with a user interface to createtags. For example, a keyboard bar or a search bar may extend from theuser application.

In alternative embodiments, the user can request to create tags(operation 406A), or request to display predefined tags (406B), orrequest other tasks 406(C).

If in operation 406, the user opts to create a user-defined customizedtag, a GUI associated with the user application 306 enables the user tocreate customized tags in operation 412.

In operation 418, the user may further by defining the tag parameters118, e.g. a name, a graphic icon, a category, etc. Once the customizedtags are defined, the tag data can be stored and associated with thecreator (user), user groups or everyone for future use based onverification and ranking.

If however, in operation 406, the user instead chooses to display thelist of tag library, then in operation 414, the tag library may beimported from other lexicons. For example, if there is another user thatis related to this user, or a common user group, common click patternsamong other things. In operation 414, the user-application may render aGUI shows predefined tags for the user to browse.

In operation 422, the user can select tags among the predefined tagsdisplayed 122, or opt to create customized tags 412 if he does not wantto use the predefined tags. In addition to selecting a predefined tag auser can negate a predefined tag 422. For example many websites mayutilize or generate tags that do not directly relate to the contentprovided on the website to increase their rankings and display in aconvention heuristic based search engine. For example, a website mayutilize hidden text with commonly searched keywords. For example, anindependent politically active group who dislike a particular candidate“Rick”, they may create websites about “donkeys” and utilize hidden textwith the word “Rick.” Therefore, in a search for the word “Rick” awebsite for “donkeys” may appear. To combat this issue, a user mayprovide negative tags and these negative tags may be associated with auser group or with the general lexicon.

If the user has chosen to request other tasks 110 from the provider GUI104, he can perform the tasks 416 and end the session 424.

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FIG. 5 is an example method for a user-based context dependent searchengine.

In block 502, the service provider system 110 may receive tags or otheruser-defined personalization for documents, content for the corpus. Thecontent may include multimedia information, textual information, audioinformation, image information, video information, or the like, computerprograms, scripts, games, logic, or the like. The tags may identify aspecific context associated with the documents or webpages. For example,the tags may identify specific keywords, location-based information,links to other documents, data files etc. In block 504, interaction dataassociated with the user may be identified, o more links between the oneor more tags and tag associated information (TAI) are generated. A linkcan include one or more relationships between a user-specific tag andTAI. In some embodiment, an interaction data may include or berepresented by one or more static relationships. In further embodiments,the one or more links identifying relationships between the one or moretags and the tag associated information may have dynamic relationships.For example, if a tag is associated within a user-group, the tag may beless relevant to people outside the user group, therefore, therelationship to the document with the tag may be diminished.

In block 358, a lexicon may be generated based on the tags. For example,the lexicon may be generated to associate a portion of the interactiondata, with keyword terminology and tags. Further, certain images andemotions may also be identified and used.

The lexicon may be encoded for access and transmission. The encoding maybe in XML or other mark-up languages to identify certain user-specifictags, lexicon, user-groups, images etc. For example, the lexicon datamay include a video data in relations to certain documents for increasedrelevancy to the user.

In block 510, the search engine server may receive a query from a userfor information using certain keywords. The query may be either for atopic, an image, a recommendation on a restaurant etc. The user may alsosend optional preferences and parameters in the query.

In block 512, the documents may be ranked based on the lexicon for theuser and the user-related preferences. The highest ranking webpages maybe selected is selected, as this maybe the webpage documents that wouldbe most suitable for the users' query.

At operation 514, the highest ranking websites is presented to the user.It may be presented either on the user device. The total number ofwebsites presented to the user may vary based on the size of the users'browser screen and preferences.

FIG. 6 illustrates a block diagram of an example data flow 600 forgenerating a lexicon, in accordance with embodiments of the disclosure.With reference to FIG. 6 a first user's lexicon content 602 may beidentified for inclusion in a particular document or subject Forexample, lexicon may be identified the service provider system 110 asillustrated in FIG. 3. As another example, lexicon's content may beidentified by an input transmitted by a user device 104.

Additionally, a wide variety of information 604 may be identified andevaluated in order to determine additional lexicon to be incorporated inreference to a documents or a group of documents. Examples ofinformation that may be evaluated include, but are not limited to, userspecific information (user profile data, user emotion, user ratings,user-preferences, etc.). If it involves a product, service, or otheritem information (e.g., pricing information associated with an item,rating information, review information, item variation information,etc.), associated content specific information (e.g., content presentedvia a website, complementary product information, etc.).

Based upon an evaluation of at least a portion of the information 604,available multiple related lexicons 608 may be determined, selected,and/or generated for incorporation into context specific lexicons foreither the document or for the users. The multiple user lexicons 608 maythen be combined with the first lexicon 602 in order to generate athorough lexicon. In other examples, if a user may decide to use anegative filter on a particular user group or content provided bycertain user groups. For example, if someone was searching for “recipes”and the person were vegetarian, she might have negative filters fromrecipes from the American Beef Association etc. Therefore, when shesearches for recipe, the lexicon is specifically subtracted from searchterms.

Improved lexicon 620 with both filters and additions may be created.This lexicon may be user-specific, subject-specific, document, specificor document group specific.

As desired in various embodiments, a wide variety of variations may bemade to the data flow 400 illustrated in FIG. 6. For example, othercriteria and/or information may be evaluated out of order or combinedwith other methods The data flow 600 illustrated in FIG. 6 is providedby way of example only.

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FIG. 7 illustrates a communication flow diagram 700 of severalinteractions between users 104 and the service provider system 110. Byway of illustration, and not by way of limitation, four users aredepicted 104(1)-104(4) having associated user devices 104 (not shown) aswell as the search engine server 128. The communications may betransported by the network 108. In this illustration, the relationshipmodule 350 has determined that users 104(1) and 104(2) are related toone another. The relationship module 350 has also determined that user104(2) is also related to 104(3). User 104(4) is unrelated to users104(1)-104(3). In this diagram, time increases along the direction ofarrow 704.

At operation 706, a user 104(2) “Alice” communicates with the serviceprovider system 110 to provide a tag “A” on a subject 1. For example,Alice may be commenting on the subject 1 utilizing tag A. This commentmay be addressed to a particular group of users 104, or may be availableto all.

At operation 708, a user 104(3)” Bob” communicates with the searchengine server 128 to provide tag “B” about the subject 1. Continuing theexample, Bob 104(3) may be identifying an image with relation to thesubject 1. As above, this comment may be addressed to a particular groupof users 104, or may be available to all.

At 710, a user 104(1) “Carol” requests information about subject 1 fromthe search engine server 128, or from another server in communicationwith the service provider system 110 or the user.

At operation 712, at least partly in response to the request, theservice provider system 110 provides weighs tags A and B in relation tothe degrees of separation. For example, Alice is directly connected toCarol. However, Bob is separated by Carol with two degrees. In thisexample, the search engine may weigh Alice's tags more heavily thanBob's tags because of the degree of separation.

At operation 714, the user 104(2) may provide to the search engineserver 110 an additional comment “C” on the consumer object For example,the user 104(2) may view a personal tag from another user and addpersonal experience with regard to the tag.

At operation 716, the service provider system 110 provides interactiondata comprising the additional comment “C” to the users 104(1) and104(3). This may be in response to a request by the users 104(1) and104(3), or may have been pushed or sent without query to the userdevices 102 associated with the users 104(1) and 104(3). The user 104(2)does not see a social marker 124 associated with this comment because itoriginated with user 104(2).

At 718, an unrelated user “Esha” may request information about thesubject 1 from the service provider system or another server. Becausethe user is unrelated, the comments and interaction data may not be asrelevant as it is for Alice, Bob and Carol.

At 720, the service provider system 110 may weigh the tags for A, B, Cfor the user Esha 104(4). Because the Esha user 104(4) is unrelated touser Alice, Bob or Carol, the lexicon may be filtered or otherwiseweighted to account for the non-relationships of these entities. Thelexicon or other interaction data 218 associated with the query may beavailable to the unrelated user “Esha” 104(4). For example, the user“Esha” 104(4) may view detail information about the topic of subject 1which may include the comments “A,” “B,” and “C,” recommendations fromthe users, and so forth. However, because no relationship exists betweenusers 104(1)-104(3) and the user 104(4), the search results may besignificantly different for “Esha” 104(4).

FIG. 8 illustrates a flow diagram 600 of a process of generating alexicon based on interaction data. The process may be performed at leastin part by the user device 104, the service provider system 110, anotherdevice, or a combination thereof.

At operation block 802 accesses interaction data 218 associated with oneor more users devices 104(U). As described above, this interaction data218 may comprise inquiries, page views, purchases, shares, replies,messages, recommendations, blog entries, or a combination thereofassociated with the one or more topics which may be that the user device104(11) has previously commented on a particular topic, website ordocument.

At operation block 804 receives a query from a target user device 104(1)to wherein the query contains terms associated with the interaction data218. The terms may be terms or art or specific terms related to a topicor a subject raised during an interaction between users.

At operation block 806 determines a relationship between the one or moreusers 104(U) and the target user device 104(1). As described above thelexicon generation module 352 may retrieve relationship information fromthe user data 214 or generated by the relationship module 350.Continuing the example, the target user 104(1) may be determined to befriends with the user 104(11). The target user 104(1) may be identifiedby receiving login credentials, inspecting a cookie associated with anInternet browser, from biometric data, and so forth.

At operation 808 determines lexicon data based at least in part on theinteraction data 218 and the relationship. As described above withrespect to the lexicon generation module 352 in this example, thisdetermination may utilize the comment made by the user devices 04(11),the target user's device 104(1) query, and the relationship betweenusers 104(1) and 104(11).

At block 810 provides lexicons based at least in part on the interactionand relationship analysis to the target user 104(1). For example, thesearch engine server 128 may send to the user device 102 the lexiconwhich the user device 102 may then identify as the users's specificlexicon during a search query.

FIG. 9 illustrates a flow diagram 700 of a tagging or identifying thewebsite content.

Block 902 receives from a website documents associated with the website.The entity may comprise an individual, a company, a group of companies,a marketing cooperative, and so forth. The documents may include, but isnot limited to, text, sound, graphic, video, or a combination thereof.For example, the documents may be text and a link associated with otherrelevant documents. The documents may be transmitted with contentprovider tags that may identify the context and describe varioushuman-related semantic knowledge of the documents.

Block 904 determines one or more user-tags associated with thedocuments. In some implementations, this determination may be based atleast in part on the interaction data 218. In other examples, the usersmay provide or identify the documents with certain context or semanticmeanings or lexicon.

Block 906 generates lexicon that may be weighted based on thecontent-provider tags and the user-provided tags. For example, if manyusers across many community groups, with various interaction dataprovide certain tags, these tags may be receive a significant weight incomparison to the tags received by the content provider. For example,content providers may utilize certain tags to ensure that their websitesare produced as the top listing for many web queries. Therefore, inorder to maintain the integrity of the search results, the user-providedtags may be given greater weight if there is a significant different.

However, in other examples, if the user-provided tags is in agreementwith the content provider tags, there may be a different weighingcriteria in determining if these tags are relevant to the lexicon forthe documents.

Block 908 associates the lexicon to the documents. Therefore, upon aquery, the lexicon associated with the document may be utilized foridentifying a relevance to a query.

FIG. 10 illustrates a flow diagram 1000 of a process of providing asearch engine query. The process may be performed at least in part bythe user device 105, the service provider system another device, or acombination thereof.

In block 1002, the service provider system 110 may determine theinteraction data based at least in part on the relationship with thetarget user and one or more other users. The relationship may be basedon degrees of separation in a social network. The relationship may befurther based on location, or interaction.

Block 1004 filters the lexicon to select data or tags having arelationship counter greater than a pre-determined threshold. Asdescribed above, the relationship counter indicates a number ofinteractions, such as messages, associated with the website, a lexiconassociated with a group of website documents, products services etc.from related users. In some implementations, each interaction mayincrement the counter.

In another implementation, the lexicon data may be filtered by one ormore attributes. For example, instead of, or in addition to therelationship counter and pre-determined threshold, the lexicon may befiltered for a particular user 104 based on certain preferences such asby date, by content, and so forth.

The pre-determined threshold may be statically or dynamically set Thethreshold may be set by a system administrator and applicable to oneuser 104 or a group of users 104. In another implementation, individualusers 104 may set their threshold value. The threshold may bedynamically set, such as by comparing when the user selects therelationship the counter value. For example, some users 104 maytypically disregard interactions until they have three or moreinteractions. Thus, for those users 104, the system may dynamicallyadjust so that relationship counters are presented when there are atleast three interactions.

In block 1006, the filtered data may be provided to the user device.

FIG. 11 is a representative data structure for the tags and relatedprivacy settings. A user device 104 may have different tags, each with adifferent preference level indicated by 1, 2, 3, and 5. Each level mayindicate a privacy level associated with the tag, indicated by a degreeof separation. For example, a level 1 may indicate a directcommunicative relationship. The user may be share the tags depending onthe level of trust.

Directing attention to FIG. 12, tags 1202-1206 can be joined in string1200 to help the search i.e. “Professor William Brown,” shown in tag1202, “PHD Particle Physics Oxford University,”—Tag 1204, and “Funded ByCern,” shown in tag 1206. So in the example shown in FIG. 12, onscientific papers accreditation and funding can be linked in the tags,this of course would work with a wide variety of applications, such asfilms or any other group enterprise. Strings of tags work well forindividual users and simple applications also. In an embodiment, thetags in string 1200 are weighted based on the user's choice. Inembodiments where tags 1202-1206 are weighted equally, the cumulativeamount of positive or negative tags (1 through 3+) make the first resulthopefully the most relevant If not, the user can tweak the weight of thetags in the tag sting in advanced mode, or chose negative tags tofurther refine the result. Results are based initially on positiveagreement of tags, with initial tags taken from websites' meta data.Users can simply agree with meta data, and upon agreement the meta datais converted into tags.

Descriptions of the node network architecture embodiments of the presentinvention explained with reference to a user interface referred toherein as the tool rose, which is explained in detailed below after thefunction and applications of the node network architectures containedherein are described.

Adding tags (or disagreeing with the tags) is encouraged by the ease ofuse of the tool rose user Interface. When a user disagrees with a tag,that disagreement becomes a tag also. Each user, their devices, and eachcommunity have unique identifiers. Each tag has the user's ID attachedand is dated, which enables the removal of already-seen results, orselection of already-seen results to aid the search. At set momentsconsistent with privacy needs of users, the unique identifiers can beremoved if or when required. The present invention utilizes a torrentmethod that differs from a standard torrent in that at the moment eachsingle torrent file is given its own unique identifier, each user isgiven unique identifier. However, in an embodiment, one can stillmaintain anonymity by requesting an anonymous ID. Each user has his orher own unique user identifier (referred to herein as a “UI”) and apassword for authorization. A further elaboration of the UI can be usedfor the user's devices. For example if their UI is “ABCD,” theirdevice(s) can be identified as ABCDA or ABCDB etc. Directing attentionto FIG. 13, there is shown generally a sequence of steps 1300 that showinteraction with a user device from the user perspective. At step 1302,the user downloads the app or program depending on their device(s). Atstep 1304, the user identifies himself, his friends and communities ifdesired. The user receives a identifier and pass-code for himself fromservice provider system 110, and from communities they are linked to,going through whatever security protocol the communities haveinstituted. Users also reciprocate with an asked friend and can beacknowledged by their friends, and have the facility to remove thefriend's ID from their stream. At step 1306, if the user wishes to taganonymously, he or she can request from service provider system 110 ananonymous tagging identifier, and a pseudo-randomly generated, encryptedkey is then generated for that user. Service provider system 110 has theability to delete tags from the network, keeping it safe, and stillallows anonymity.

Each privacy or tag or community level has an add-on to that UIidentifier which is also unique, enabling sharing by choice, degree ofseparation, community etc. For example, consider that user 0 has the UIof userO, and each device, if logged on and linked, would be userO1 oruser02 etc. At each tag level, privacy level, community, etc., there isa further refinement on the UI, so the most private level in which theuserO shares information between devices is for example userOa, the nextlevel of sharing is userOb, etc. It is anticipated that a strong levelof cryptography is provided for the most private levels. Every standardfile seeded has a UI that is linked to the user and to the privacy levelchosen. Each time users log on, the can choose their own ID, or use ananonymous ID (double blind key). There also is no need to log in tosearch standard tags, but the login is needed to search private tags, bydegree of separation, private communities and the like. Thus, using thetorrent system of the present invention as described herein, eachcommunity creates its own alternate Internet as a heterogeneous networksolution.

The service provider system 110 has its own node computers that operateon private streams so that user updates don't choke the base registrywith direct information. With open tagging as described herein, eachuser is tied in by their initial registration to a specific base nodecomputer, and the computers of the service provider system 110 updateeach other at set times. Each set user group, private community or thelike also can choose select devices such as any Internet-enabled device,computers, tablets, mobiles, watches, televisions, etc. to act as mainnodes when needed by a level of users to avoid choking the system.Directing attention to FIG. 14, each torrent file level consists of twovariable data streams A and B. Stream A is used as a base standardregistry. Stream A is updated by the program from stream B at setmoments of time as the data is accrued and changed. The data in stream Aand B are time stamped, with this the program recognizes and updatesfrom stream B to stream A.

When the user tags the meta data, it is stored in stream B, which thenupdates stream A. Each time A is updated it automatically saves the baseregistry file and seeds updates to stream B of the allied devices andcomputers within the privacy setting. B updates to A, which updates toother users' stream B and so on in a cyclical fashion. Streams A and Bare in the same torrent structure, two halves of the same whole. Whenthere is a new tag, it is attached as meta data to a URL, or as metadata to a identifier of the base program file (for example, wordprocessor files or image or sound files), that is then stored in thebase registry, the meta data is time stamped, with this the tags areshared from stream B, to A at set moments and new tags are recognized tobe shared to the privacy levels of the users choice. Tags are eitheruser-identified, or base definitions, base definitions are setcategories of standard URL meta data or user-based tags such as emotionetc. as described herein. Stream A also updates streams and seeds to thenode the user is identified with, again dependent on the privacy settingof the user.

Directing attention to FIG. 15, each device acts as a server for everyother device the user wishes to interact with, or other users, orcommunities, and as such maintains privacy. Each user and each communityhave unique identifiers enabling direct communication. As shown in FIG.15, arrows having dashed lines such as arrow 1502 show the open torrentstreams. The solid lines 1504 show closed torrent streams, eitherbetween a user having multiple devices backing up information and tags,or degrees of social separation or set communities. Again, as serviceprovider system 110 is the main seeder, it stores copies of all opentags, and allied community tags, to enable general search. Each torrentfile contains identifiers to the tagging information level, community(or club etc.) share level, and a file share level, all of which mayhave various degrees of privacy. This is illustrated in FIG. 16, wheremultiple torrents are shown. This way, the information is placed in theappropriate torrent, and at each level the user can choose how tointeract by sharing only what they want to.

The torrents file streams are updated continually, unlike a standardtorrent. With this facility the tool rose can forward messages fromusers who are linked, and as the tool rose is linked to service providersystem 110, it can also, given permission, forward standard messages,such as Facebook pm's, tweets, email etc.

User 1 joins a node network, downloads tool rose, receives the originidentity key code and creates a password and index name (i.e.alexllondon), sets the privacy level to that name (i.e. searchable ornot, and within what degree of separation) and whether a location tagshould be attached initially. They are logged in to their personalizedtool rose node network, they personalize the standard settings, andauthorize a search by the tool rose on their device for contacts, thenlog in and synchronize appropriate networks and network contacts. Theythen download the tool rose to any other device and synchronize it withthe origin device, each subsequent device being set as an adjunct to theoriginal prime identity. The user then authorizes a search on theirdevice via the tool rose and selects which files to share, and with whatadjunct devices, if any, or whom, which networks and at what level ofsecurity and openness etc. When the tool rose scans the devices files,the depth of the scan is up to the user, and if a full scan is selectedit will add meta data tags to imported files, or overlay linking metadata to chosen files. Users can choose to fully import the files orshort cut them from the origin file, if the file is set to “open share”the meta data is stored in origin format in the tool rose user file andthat is automatically uploaded to a tool rose emperor node, the user canalso add links to the files. The device, after analyzing its own files,searches and synchronizes any files from the user in other networks ordevices. At each degree of openness the user will confirm they want toshare the file, and dependent on the security pre-sets they may have toadd a key, any upload to an open network could require systemreauthorization and/or subsequent login to the tool rose. The user'snode routing table is formed at initial download to their prime origindevice. The router is continually updating the contact details of thearranged and prioritized contact list, emotion adding a further contextand refiners on logical judgement, or computer logic. The tool rosegraphical user interface illustrated and described herein in multipleembodiments easily enables adjustments to the illogical,human-quantified and emotionally-driven routing. In one aspect, the usermanipulates the tool rose to update a file using quick link routingrefiners displayed in a tool rose petal as an emoji, emoticons, symbols,and the like. The tool rose overlays the active file, with the tool rose4700 in FIG. 47 (at reference numeral 4718) showing a possible emoji forlike, reference numeral 4714 showing a possible symbol for priority,reference numeral 4720 showing a possible symbol representing multiplefriends. FIG. 57 shows a basic petal formation in tool rose 5700, witheach number representing a quick link to a refining emotion, a file orprogram, a specific person, or network. Directing attention to FIG. 50,at reference numeral 5002, there is shown a version of a petal quicklink expanded with adjustable possible positive and negative variablerefiners showing.

FIG. 17 is a representation of a node network having an emperor node incommunication with other nodes. As shown, emperor node 1702 is acomputing device or collection of computing devices configured tomaintain a backup registry of nodes as well as backup storage of taginformation provided by users of various nodes 1704-1708 in the networkthat are in communication with the emperor node. In accordance with thedual-node architecture of embodiments of the present invention, nodesare divided into a dual-node logical structure having node A and node B,as described above, and dynamic updates of nodes A and B are representedby the two lines connecting each of nodes 1704-1708 to emperor node1702.

A prime node is the uniquely identified designation received by thefirst node in a personal network from an emperor node, an adjunct nodehas an unique identifier which is dependent from a prime, which is anaffix on the primes unique identifier to coordinate network identity. Aprime node may become an emperor node. An allied emperor is a nodesystem from an alternate network which maintains base structuralprotocols, though may have different refiners, or joining requirements.An allied prime is a prime node from an allied network. A mirror primeis any proportional virtual routing partner to another prime node, in avirtual overlay naming structure, for structured dynamic multi-casting.An adjacent prime, is the hierarchical predecessor or subsequent prime,to any referred to prime node a peer to peer network.

FIG. 18 is a representation of an emperor node associated with primenodes and adjunct nodes. In node network 1800, emperor node 1802 is incontact with prime nodes 1804, 1806, and emperor node 1808. Prime nodes1804, 1806 in embodiments are dual torrent nodes associated withindividual users, having nodes A and B as described above, and also maybe associated with adjunct dual torrent nodes 1810, 1812, respectively.Emperor node 1808 is an emperor node of a separate network, referred toherein as an allied network and is in contact with prime nodes 1814.Table 1830 shows organization of torrents to peer nodes, files shared,with whom the individual files are shared, and any limits places onfiles shared.

FIG. 19 is a representation of decentralized network disengaged from anemperor node. As shown in environment 1900, there is no emperor node;only prime nodes 1910, 1920, and 1930. Prime node 1910, associated withuser1, is also in contact with adjunct nodes 1912, 1914. Prime node1920, associated with user2, is also in contact with adjunct nodes 1922,1924. Prime node 1930, associated with user3, is also in contact withadjunct nodes 1912, 1914. Adjunct nodes 1912, 1914 are shown in contactwith each other. Adjunct nodes 1922, 1924 are shown in contact with eachother. Adjunct nodes 1932, 1934 are shown in contact with each other,[and specifically 1914 and 1934 are in direct communication]

FIG. 20 shows a representation of a device connected in node networkenvironment 2000. As shown, the emperor node 2002 is in contact withprime nodes 2004-2008, which respectively are in communication withadjunct nodes 2010-2030. As shown, a minor adjunct node 2032 connects touser3's adjunct node 1. Depending on where a user initially links theminor node, the UI may be either a variant of User 3's prime node 2008or prime node 2008 and the adjunct designation. This set up isparticularly useful for a user's devices, such as the user's maincomputing device and mobile telephone, for example.

FIG. 21 shows network environment 2100 in which emperor node 2102 is incontact with user 1's prime node 2104, user 2's allied prime node 2106,user 1's adjunct node 2108, user 1's adjunct node 2110, user 1's adjunctnode 2112, and user 3's allied prime node 2114. As shown, the variousnodes are implemented in a variety of computing devices, such as gameconsoles, laptops, tablet computers, and smart phones.

FIG. 22 shows how the dual node A/B updates take place between variousdevices shown in FIG. 21. In network environment 2200, A/B node updatesdescribed above, occur between the various nodes 2202 through 2214. Theheavier lines showing prioritized and active streaming, the lighterlines symbolizing inactive streaming but the nodes are linked viarouting table, so could go active at user prompt.

FIG. 23 is a flow diagram depicting a user journey over a node network.Beginning at act 2302, user 1 requests to join an emperor's node networksuch as those shown above in FIGS. 20-22, and receives a UI, password,and control program upon approval from an emperor node. At act 2304, theemperor node assigns an unattributed UI from its pitch to the requestinguser, updates its routing table, lexicons, other emperors in theenvironment, and, depending on user settings and/or previousconnections, other allied emperor networks. At act 2306, user 1 is nowidentified in the node network with a stable UI that is affixed andupdated each time a login occurs or at timed intervals with theircurrent IP, DNS, or telephone number. The first device a user connectswith is designated as the user's prime node, although that can beattributed to a subsequently-connected device under the user's control.At act 2308, the node control program received by the user's prime nodefrom the emperor node requests permission to set communication settings,routing tables and stream sets, assign a public name to the UI, searchand connect to other network users, and assign a temporary dependent UIof dependent adjunct node status to contacts who are not in the networkor an allied network for routing and security setting purposes. At act2310, the user decides to add a new device to their network. This deviceis set as having a standard adjunct node status. This device updates theuser's prime node, the emperor node to which the user initiallyconnected, and other connected network users with the dependent UI.Control then returns to act 2304, where the process repeats for thisuser and/or other users. In this manner, users have the ability to addsubsequent devices to the network and communicate using them with othernodes in the network.

FIGS. 24-26 are representations of a helix architecture for a nodenetwork of emperor nodes, prime nodes, and adjunct nodes. Directingattention to FIG. 24, a helical structure 2400 is useful for visualizingthe relationships between nodes in embodiments of networkingenvironments of the present invention. Helix 2400 allows expansion byinserting additional pitches over time. As referred to herein, a pitchrepresents one complete revolution around the Z axis of the helix 2400.As shown FIG. 24 showing mirrored primes on different allied networks.

FIG. 25 illustrates a helix structure 2500 having emperor nodes locatedat each pitch in helix structure 2500. A starting emperor is definedherein as a node having an allowed time and date stamp associated withit, which is in communication with the other emperor nodes on thedifferent pitches of helix structure 2500. To show a complete traversalof helix structure 2500, the end emperor node is adjacent to the startemperor node. Each pitch would have hierarchical designation, so timedate to define position not an absolute, time date needed for bestpractice tided links, lexicons, and communication.

FIG. 26 shows the vectored helical structure 2600, which can be expandedto link together a very high number of node networks. Proportionaldesignations set on pitch angles allowing controlled communicationsthroughout the dynamic network.

FIGS. 27-29 are representations of prime nodes on different pitches of ahelix architecture for a node network Directing attention to FIG. 27, aprime node is shown on helical structure 2700 as being in basic contactwith adjacent prime nodes on neighboring pitches, and potential contactwith adjacent primes on its own pitch, a mirror node, its own emperor,and the other emperors of the neighboring pitches. FIG. 28 showing thevectored direction of traversal 2800 of helical structure 2700. FIG. 29shows aerial view 2900 of the portion of helical structure 2700 and thevectored direction of traversal 2800, also showing the effect of thepitch vector for proportional multi-casting or controlled flooding,vector is very important as its the z vector which makes theproportional multi cast more controllable, and adds an extra safe guardas you wouldn't need a time stamp on the data flooded.

FIG. 30-31 Directing attention to FIG. 30, the helical structure 3000showing connection to a separate helical structure through an alliedemperor node which was a prime node in the original network. As shown,and described above, a prime node may have a number of adjunct nodes, inthis case three adjunct nodes. FIG. 31 shows aerial view 3100 of helicalstructure 3000, emphasizing the prime adjunct association.

Directing attention to FIG. 30, helical structure 3000 shows connectionto a separate helical structure through an allied emperor node with aprime node origin. As shown, and described above, a prime node may havea number of adjunct nodes, in this case three adjunct nodes. FIG. 31shows aerial view 3100 of helical structure 3000. 32=sharing structure.

FIGS. 32-36 represent various file sharing details for different nodeson the node network. Directing attention to FIG. 32, routing table 3200shows a prime node attributed to a teacher, the files he shares, andstudents represented by adjunct nodes. The prime node shares its fileswith its adjunction nodes, and also limits the files to be sharedbetween the prime node and adjuncts, for example home work that is to behanded in is accepted only in a desired manner specified by the teacher.

FIG. 33 shows a routing table 3300 where the students of FIG. 32 arelisted again, this time as prime nodes connected to a different teacher,who is also represented as a prime node. This routing table similarlyshows the files to be shared, between which nodes, and the limits on thefile shared.

FIG. 34 shows routing table 3400, which is similar to routing table 3200but with fresh details for files shared, between whom they are shared,and file sharing limits. Thus, FIG. 34 shows the dynamic nature of filesharing between nodes as they are affected by updates. For example,routing table 3400 can change again with an update a week later, so thatthere is always a current routing table throughout the school term.

FIG. 35 shows prime dual torrent node [PDTN] 1.1 actively sharing freelyfiles 1A-1D with prime allied dual torrent node PALDTN 2.0 (referencenumeral 3500). PDTN 1.1 has previously shared those files with emperornode 1.1 in a limited manner. FIG. 36 shows at reference numeral 3600prime dual torrent node [PDTN] user 1 has shared file 1A with user 1'sown adjunct nodes and prime dual torrent node 2.0, though user 1 haslimited the share, so user PDTN cannot share file 1A even with one oftheir adjuncts without a time to live activating and deleting the filein any further node.

FIG. 37 represents message dissemination between various users on thenode network having different proxy levels. Message 3700 is shared withUsers 1-4, all having a proxy level of 1. Users 1-4 then share message3700 with users 5-8, all having a proxy level of 2. Users 5-8subsequently share message 3700 with user 9, an end user. In thismanner, message passing in the network is controlled through proxylevels for security.

Embodiments of the present invention automatically fill andcross-reference tagged or identified information, or informationsources, across devices if desired. Examples include creating a filecontaining all emails, texts, word files, photographs, etc. from eithera select user or users, or networks, or using selected key words, orother meta data, thus enabling easier organization. Selecting files tobe “short cuts/ghosts” between devices, enables full cross device accesswhen devices can communicate, and allowing minor devices to maintainlighter hard drive use. One doesn't need complete files on any onedevice for sharing or search of information if a file is open (meaningaccessible with no time to live constraint), or at least open to thattype of network, and the information has not been through thecryptography spin. The initial file would be split with meta data tagsordering it, and a person or program could choose to send or sendautomatically the whole file or segments. They, or the program, wouldselect a segment of that file and only release that portion which ishighlighted via the selection process. It is a system where the programwhich breaks up and reforms the file can recognize a person orautomatically highlighted or specifically tagged information (or area)and prioritize that information with further meta data tags—i.e. ahighlighted passage within a file, or a specific face in a photograph,or any x/y graph positioned tagged information, or keyword selectedinformation or the like. For example, a face in a photograph would loadbefore the rest of the photograph loads. With this system, the end userwould not need a complete file to partially open a section and as suchthis would prioritize select data transfer across torrent p2p networks.The information could still have basic cryptography, just not the spin,and if unencrypted, the meta data would be open to all searches. Eachorigin user is a subset in the super origin base registry in the toolrose dual node net, and unless a proxy is used, the base register isadapted with a location proximity code; each subsequent user device issubset to their origin code.

Each user, and/or device can split into a new origin net and become anorigin registrar for their own network. With this a user or device mighthave multiple registry values, but depending on which network they logonto and their activities, identification and responsibilities on aregistry is different When logging onto the tool rose node net, theirorigin registry could not be replicated, with any other user, though itcould be transferred to another personal device. Each code is linked tothe user's name or pseudonym and passwords. If the users forgot thepassword, they would have to remember the designation of the device thatthey on were logging in on, and their user name. The tool rose could beset to delete all information contained within a user's private networkor any specific device, but they would have to pass additional securityprotocols. This would add a layer of security if a device with an opentool rose was stolen.

The dual update nodes are relative and dynamic. They can be wholly orpartially linked in private networks, with each node choosing whether toact as a tether to others in the network. All open tags and information(i.e. files etc.) scanned are collated, indexed and stored on emperornodes and secure storage. Emperor nodes can request data automaticallyfrom each other and trigger searches on each other's open streams andtags (or storage stacks) to update requests from prime users across thesystem. An emperor is like a personalized server exchange.

In embodiments, emperor nodes are permanently online in a cloudlikeenvironment. A new emperor is formed when a local emperor is at x %capacity (i.e. 70%). At this point, the latest-formed emperor triggers anew one to be formed, duplicating basic node programming, indexes, etc.The new emperor has subsequently a greater hierarchical identity numberthan the last one. The new emperor has a higher designation, and newusers to the network are attached (or shunted) automatically to thehighest regional emperor node.

Emperor nodes have static IP addresses and can hold fresh userinformation (i.e. messages, files, etc.) until a user logs in, where itis then transferred to the user's prime or another designated user node,and deleted from the emperor, unless the user wishes to maintain a copyon the emperor node stack. Open or shared information (i.e. mail), isdumped to the user's node and either deleted from emperor node, orstored in an account, like a normal sever.

Each prime user node has a twin in their emperor, not necessarily forinformation storage, but for stored settings and switching streaminformation and tags if the user wishes. Emperor nodes are super nodesmade from multiple nodes with distinct regional structures; each has itsown specialized functions composed of flexible hubs that help toorganize and coordinate processing among the other independentspecialized nodes' networks. Multiple, rapidly-shifting connections aremanaged by specialized processing hubs and networks in the emperor node.Heterogeneous cores have vector (i.e. tagging in open or closed formatschanges the vector on the information stream) units for streaming,scalability, and core indexing of end user nodes. Each emperor nodesections itself to work in small indexed designated units, which thenforward the data to higher controlling hubs. The hubs control differentnetworks. For example, users who tend to group in overlapping networks,as well as privacy issues, make certain tags open to specific groups. Asset units become more active, more processing power and bandwidth ismade available to those units. The information is like threads woventogether to make rope.

A network setting can be selected at initial download (or later), andthe node can be set as an “Allied Emperor” for index and identitypurposes. An allied emperor node can also be set after usage and showsthe need to designate a prime user node as an allied emperor, when a setamount of devices on a user network grows past a threshold number foruser devices. The emperor nodes designate the allied emperor as a usernetwork or an allied network for unit designation, for exampleprocessing and bandwidth.—this is based on information demands on nodesand prefix indexing to a user ID.

The emperor node system is decentralized but hierarchical, forduplication, expansion, back up, and jam reasons. In embodiments, eachemperor node includes multiple parallel super nodes combined to form oneemperor node. There are sets of communication hubs that relay thestreams associated with sets of users, networks or tags, or tag fields(such as similar tags grouped together) to avoid blocking any particularsets of streams. The emperor nodes and user nodes hook up to each otheras needed.

The nodes communicate on an ad-hoc basis because the super nodes aredynamic and there is less opportunity for a data traffic jam, or many ofthe other problems of mainstream hierarchical nodes. If one emperor nodeis down or flooded the user node jumps to the next closest in thehierarchy, until the failed node is functioning properly again. 51.) Allnodes have the address indexes of the emperor nodes, and have otherindexes to store and share information. Each user's nodes contain theuser's own prime and adjunct nodes full indexes, as well as the emperornode addresses. Each user's node network can also contain the addressesand other indexes of allied networks and friends' addresses.

All nodes, when online or with open security settings, have continuousdual update of active information sharing, either in standard format orin a dual torrent stream. A user has total control over how informationis received, and streamed, at what rate, with whom, and what networks.Each user node when online finds the local emperor or allied emperor andattaches itself. As the user is in total control, they can choose toseed and leech to their own devices on a private network, or to anyother.

All user nodes have personalized sharing settings, for example selectivetimed sharing, selective amount sharing, selective files, andproportional sharing. All user prime and adjunct nodes are linked acrossdevices. Each emperor node with the dual update stream maintainsinformation correctly even if there are time lags or the connectiondrops momentarily. Emperor nodes back up to emperor stack backups,either at set times or set points of accrued data. As coding for thecloud also brings many extra problems, like time lag and coresdisappearing in the middle of a computation when a connection drops, thedual update system previously described self-correct these issues.

Meta data tags have file locations, descriptions and key words, andx/y/z positioning. The tool rose nodes heuristically scans documents,images, videos etc. depending on security and privacy settings atinitial download or upon user request, after satisfying user securityprompts. Emperor nodes contain multiple communication layers in eachstream, dictating how the privacy levels affect the information sharing.Files on prime or adjunct nodes are sorted into privacy and sharinglevels via appropriate streams, so that data is sorted in the user'sdevice primarily rather than the emperor node.

Information is ordered by the user nodes before transfer to an emperornode. This reduces flooding/jams etc. occurring at the emperor nodes.The information and tags are attached at the origin user node, and sentout in stream, either directly to another device within the user's ownnetwork, another user's device or node set on another network, or to anemperor node, or a combination there of, either via the Internet, orbounced in secure packet via mesh computing configurations.

Messaging via the node network works either in a standard sever setup,with the emperor acting as a normal server, the users designating theiremperor node to hold the messages until they are online, and then theemperor node either passes on the message to the user node, thendeleting the information from its storage, or holds it until the userdeletes it Messaging can be directly to another device within the user'sown network.

Messaging can also be directly from user to user, either via theinternet or bounced in secure packet via mesh, as the dual update streampauses sharing when not online or in a mesh configuration. Users can actas their own servers and the actual information doesn't necessarily passthrough the emperors. If going via the emperor node, it informs the usernode of the tool rose node ID and bounces that to the IP and the devicethat is requesting or sending the message, unless using a proxy meshbounce, then the emperor has no access and the message is bounces acrossvarying networks. Emperor nodes don't necessarily hold the information;they can deflect it, just holding a tag, that a user is online or activein a mesh (unless there security is denying that) or that there isinformation waiting to be sent from a set user (unless hidden and proxy)to another set user, or that there is information waiting to becollected by a set user, etc.

In open document streams for collaborative work with select users, eachuser could be highlighted in selected color coding or different typefaces for identifying different people in collaborative workenvironment.

What makes the tool rose node structure different is how each node canchose, what part of a file, how to share it which other nodes regardingprivacy levels and how much to share, no node in the system is passive,control is in the hand of an end user; it is not a purely in anautomatic program, though a user can chose to use presets.

Users of the node system also have sectional prioritization of filesi.e. depending on how the file is broken to component pieces, orfractured they can chose to download, or seed those sections first—theycan also choose to seed or leach from distinct users or networks.

The Emperor nodes are hierarchical and their indexes are duplicatedacross all emperor nodes, and each emperor has a secure store. The wayinformation is shared and sorted is decentralized and dynamic, as usernodes can share directly, and the user nodes hierarchy can change(prime/adjunct). Users have additional dynamism via security andpersonalization of sharing so they are in total control of whatinformation is seeded, leached, or bumped via their personalizednetworks. The emperor dual super nodes are continually online, and arethe depository of the initial program, the origin index of users, abackup of open data, and a streaming key source for copyrightedmaterial. Emperor nodes can also bounce seed information across thedecentralized user network, via Wi-Fi/blue tooth or other types ofcommunication (i.e. mesh.) etc. if desired.

In another embodiment, the emperor node can stream a key code forcopyrighted material at the same time as the material is being streamed,downloaded or after download. The key code can contain a timed lockout,and automatic scramble after a set amount of views (i.e. rental etc.),and an automatic delete, a scramble at an attempted hack, orunauthorized share, and a limit to sharing with adjunct devices. If thefile is opened or played using the tool rose with the emperor nodesystem, and a key code is used to protect a file the node would send analert, as a scrambling if a hack is attempted, or if the file isattempted to be removed for the tool node stack to a different file forviewing out of the tool rose. Multiple users could use one initial PrimeID, and each be an adjunct within the group network to try and getaround the copyright share, but as a purchase of copyrighted materialwould need to be paid for, this would require trust with the usersregarding transaction details. The owners of the material can also set adiffusion share amount, so only so many adjunct nodes at any given timemay interact with the material, and/or set a biometric identificationinteraction feedback to authorize the file interaction, so a specificuser must be present, in furtherance the copyrighted material would holdthe specific biometric data, and would not stream the access codewithout the biometric key authorization.

As nodes could be on any device, a wide variety of hosts could serve asa node. For example, a vehicle or vessel could be configured to act asnode, or carry a node, and those nodes could be used for anonymousproxy\mesh bouncing of information.

The prime nodes are the initial designation to any user on the originuser device. A prime node can be on any device chosen, but it isrecommended to use a device with a good processor, relatively high RAMand storage capacity as it would be the user's primary storage for thetool rose lexicons and files.

Each user on a device may have private and separate node files, and adevice could be one user's prime, and another user's adjunct (or prime),depending on who was logged in. The node files are encrypted and as onlyone user could be active at any time, the device only shares via thenode system as the logged on user. However, all open device files couldbe shared by the user, with the exception of copyrighted files, whichare secured to one user. Though configured as primarily decentralizednetworks, users can store and stream information directly from emperornodes, and use any mix of personalized stores and emperor node stores.Thus, users may use an emperor node for storage and for indirect sharingwith a specific other user.

The emperor node system is an organized, decentralized network. Eachnode is super node. Churn is not an issue as emperors provide stabilityas they are like cloud-based servers though each has a separatehierarchical designation. Emperor nodes prevent information requestflooding as search is channeled through selected private networks, anddirectly through the private networks, and emperor nodes, the meta dataand tags are searched, not the files directly.

Users can de-link from emperor nodes, as each prime node keeps a copylexicon of the prime node user's friends and networks, filtered by setdegrees of separation, social networks, profession, trust, and/orparticipation history and the like. User identifiers are not reassignedif someone leaves an emperor node; they are placed in a dead stock coldstorage file.

All open unsecured meta data tags, user tags and open files are storedon the emperor nodes, when a user makes a query, they decide where tosearch, i.e. which network, what profession, trust level, what type oftags, any open emperor, google etc.

Standard tool rose preset is to download by degree of separation, ordirect from emperors. In a tool rose search, the meta data is searchedfirst for speedy results, though the users can specify files or fullwebsites to be searched also.

The node system can work without internet, and function via a meshnetwork or cabled connections between devises, as long as the nodeprogram is shared between the devices, (i.e. could be uploaded to adevice by blue tooth or USB stick, etc.).

User identity (as in origin code number) within each network ispermanent (unlike standard p2p torrent), but a person can have multipleidentities depending on network security+(i.e. what identifiers arerequired in certain networks as acceptable identification etc.) inmultiple networks. Each user identity on a device has a separate encodednode file so each login would open the appropriate user file. Ifrequired at each logout, either all or some of the information and filescould be cryptography spun on the devise and a unique code as well asthe user name and log in password would be needed to unlock it. Secureduser files could not be shared out of a tool rose individual user fileunless authorized. Unsecured files are transferred from the tool rose tothe base device to be shared with all device users, and, though thefiles may be unsecured in the tool rose, they may still be encrypted.

At first download to a device and opening of the tool rose node systemrequires the user to give system authorization as a required securitymeasure, and needs the users to say which, if any (or all) files thetool rose could access, and which base presets the security should take,the automatic presets are at the high security end. The user selectswhich files to share. A new file when opened has the option to be sharedand at what security level, or in which network, which is useful in acollaborative edit of a document.

Each stream shared within the tool rose has its own file, which maycontain multiple files. A file may appear in multiple streams. The toolrose may search within the users the open files or appropriate networkand security open files within the tool rose files, but may not searchthe device unless triggered by the user as a security caution.

Meta data tags are placed on files based on an x/y or x/y/z as well asgeneral contextual analysis. All nodes connected to emperor nodes have aset security stream, and a junk stream so corrupted files would getmoved to the junk stream and the user would be notified with an alertAlso before an open file could be shared by new users for the first timeto the node net the tool rose scans it for viruses etc. Trust would beearned with time, and clean public uploads, and highly trusted usersopen might not have a full security scan. 78.) Node selective streamingby buffering priority parts of the files for example; 3 friendsprioritize parts 1-2-3 of the file, such as a film, form either theinternet, or from distinct networks, they then share that file withintheir group network, to a chosen device on one of their networks andthey all stream the file directly to that This is useful for areas withlow bandwidth, or for limiting data charges over standard mobile phonenetworks.

If in the node network utilizing instances of the tool rose, the nodesare hierarchical, as an emperor node must designate an initial user'scode and store it in the node net lexicon on all emperor nodes. If in aprivate network, there must be an emperor node to designate theidentifying origin codes to other nodes, but each node choosing tocontain a network identity lexicon can become another emperor are anytime, each emperor node having a differing identifier with whichprefixes and designates the new node, the emperor node eitherdesignating the new code to the node based on physical location, ornumerical IP address proximity. However, a network could break away fromthe emperor node network and not designate a new emperor, it's just inthat situation there could be no new devices on that network withoutadjusting the identity lexicons.

The each node can control, or supervise the information that itacquires, or passes through it, and can designate privacy and contentsharing levels with all other nodes depending on user preference. Theonly information that is not controlled is the encrypted spun proxybounce information, but the user can choose not to participate in thatform of information sharing.

The nodes can send standard files, or torrent structured files. Eachuser has a prime (first contact with origin code if on tool rose net)and further adjunct nodes linking their devices, this relationship isflexible and can change at the users prompt. The decentralized dualclient server super node system, where the dual client server super nodesystem acts as a router via the internet, the interprocess communicationapplication layer controlling the client which is also the server,process synchronization and data synchronization via multiple userdevices using torrent shared meta data, and or file sharing, each enduser device possibly acting as a tether for any other in the usernetwork, each device having a unique identifier within the user network,possibly co-opting a mac address along with the designated uniqueidentifier dependent on the end user security choice.

User's nodes do not share streams until lodged in to the program withpasswords or other identification. Access to each user's stream node isdependent on the user's password and or access code or other identifier;users can log in on alternate devices which have the node networkplatform.

Each node has a secure user file (or files) which are passwordprotected, depending on the security settings, set to scramble ordestroy themselves on an attempted hack. When someone logs in to thenode net on a new device, the current device becomes either a primarydual torrent node, or an adjunct dual torrent node depending if the useralready has a UI which they choose to use, they might use a standardidentity or an anonymous identity (as previously described).

A user can state if they are guest on device and the nodes becomes a“temporary adjunct node,” and set the node to automatically delete userfile on log out This enables the user “guesting” on a node, to choose toshare a specific torrent or file, or check their messages. The user canpre-set which streams or files to access, or share on a guest adjunctnode via their primary dual torrent node.

One can have multiple users per device, but they cannot be logged in atsame time, each as has a unique identifier and file. Users can changeprimary and adjunct node designations, by deleting primary, thesubsequent adjunct would then move up the UI hierarchy, or assigning analternate primary, though each device would have to authorize the switchfor security reasons if adjunct status.

Each primary dual node is set in dynamic alliances with other primarydual nodes (except the emperor node UI), at the users pre-sets. Withthis system, each user can share specific files, and have a privatestream of messaging with another user or users.

Users can change their public user name, but the emperor node maintainsthe initial original UI attached to the users identity. A user canchange an Emperor node from a “home” designation when moving location,though they maintain their original UI. As Emperors are location aware auser can chose to use another emperor to run a location based search.

Each node, and each torrent or information stream within the node,performs a dynamic cyclical A/B update system previously defined. Onecan set the nodes to share files to specific streams or other nodesautomatically, or manually, and each stream has specific affix.

With the location and proximity aware aspect to the nodes, (if usersecurity permits) when the user is connect to a local emperor nodethrough an IP (or GPS marked mesh point), their address is noted. As thenodes also ping other user nodes, this combined with signals from othermeshed devices, GPS etc., can lead to extremely accurate usertriangulation, which would be useful in an emergency situation, or whentrying to meet friends etc. The triangulation functionality of coursedepends on the security settings of the user logged in (the torrentsharing this can be paused, edited, or deleted), or if the user is usingan anonymous ID, in those cases a proxy node host can randomlydistribute the user before connecting to an emperor node, so theyremain-A anonymous.

Using the node network for shipping is the same set up as a standardtool rose node net except—co-opting the IMO* and the ships name and/orNational, or Open Registry Vessel Registration details into the toolrose Unique Identifier at initial registration with an Emperor node.Global port authorities to act as emperor nodes, each ship acts as aprime or adjunct node, the headquarters of a shipping line, that wouldbe an allied emperor, though each ship would have the initial emperordesignation of its home port, as well as any line designations.

The purpose of the node net is to share relevant information, a specificuse for the maritime node net's would be warning other ships of dangers,such as bad weather, pirates, dirty fuel, icebergs, unusually largeoceanic debris (or growth or movement of such) such as the great pacificgarbage patch etc. In sharing information between a shipping line andships, multiple update streams can also help manage fuel requests,personnel updates, maintenance details, etc. Each type of data streamcan be collated and this would help general logistics at head office.International Maritime Organization (IMO) is a unique identifier forships and for registered ship management.

The tool nodes have a set stream file for tags. The user's public name,tags and files can be set to be only viewable along degrees ofseparation, or by set degrees of trust, profession or set networks.

If a camera is location aware and connected in the tool rose node net,in a transportation setting, a tool rose connected to a screen orprojection unit in a vehicle could request a tool rose on anothervehicle to share its camera view or views allowing a user to choose anappropriate travel deviation. Each validated tag and cross connection tobe a “thread” of information in a hub index, multiple users validatetags threads by positive or negative interactions, (i.e. in visual termsadd to thickness+color of threads) enabling a tapestry of information inthe Emperor nodes. The amount, and type of cross connections that areplaced in the tags and open general information files meta data codes,the hubs organize and weave the information threads enable the emperornode to learn. Each tag thread at each validation by a user to gets“thicker” i.e. climbs a point per user in the hierarchy. A user canchoose to just see or search different types of threads or tags. As eachwave of tags or other information ebbs and flows, the web of connectionsis visualized.

As users maintain in their nodes a history of what the user has tagged,when changing the privacy in the users node, it sends the signal toother nodes which hold tags and files, all nodes holding tags below thenew privacy threshold delete the information. A user can set that all orpartial tagging information is only shared when they are online, soenabling full control over their information. If a tag has been held atan open public level for a specific length of time, the emperor nodeshifts it to a permanent public tags hub. The files, and tags are heldby the nodes, not by websites, and a website can request open permanentpublic tags from public emperor nodes and also host it in site metadata.

Trading and Trading Streams

FIG. 38-40 represents various data streams utilized in a tradingenvironment using the node networks described and illustrated herein,when configured as a private network, or networks with consistentsecurity and identity requirements. An open exchange could be organizedusing the standard node net structure with full proxy possibilities aslong as the preset of the exchange network would allow that

Users could either use a clearing house to run limits on tradesavailable to users via a prefix to their unique identifier, or a timedand, or price limit on clearing individual trades could be setautomatically in each network before the user would be blocked, forexample in a network with a one-hour, and $1000 limit, any user tradecould not have more then $1000 outstanding within an hour, if a tradewas not paid within the hour, a user would be blocked automatically andwould be blocked till payment was cleared, and if a user tried tocomplete multiple trades before clearing debts of $1000, they would beblocked.

In a closed private exchange, the exchange company node network wouldhave the control of its emperor nodes, and those could shut down orblock trades if necessary, by sending a blocking signal closing accessto the network to specific or all nodes. The organization running theexchange is the emperor node or nodes, trading houses act like primenodes, trades can be carried out by trading houses on the behalf ofusers if the users wish, or users can register with the emperor node astheir own trading identity, all subject to the exchanges rules andregulations. The proxy system would work not work in the standard way inthe emperor exchange node system, as the emperor node would

maintain full knowledge of the individual trading users' identities, andof the trading houses. However the trading houses could run and assignadjunct user proxies, as they would be liable to the exchange. Theemperor updates all attached nodes and all attached nodes updates theemperor and all others they are linked or programmed to. In eitherstructural exchange, each joined set of updating data streams within thenode is a particular stock, commodity, currency, or other trade ableitem or items. Each time the item is bought or sold, the data streamsare updated, each transaction order has the

unique identifier meta data tag of the node, the users and a transactioncode (the transaction to be the stock/offer/time/price met etc.)attached to enable accounting. There are two open data streams (ortorrents) for reports on the stock or commodity, one stream for onlyapproved reports (i.e. CNBC/Bloomberg etc.), one for unapproved reports(i.e. general users), the reports can be tagged by all acknowledgedusers as to the veracity or accuracy of the reports, a user ororganization can get approved by either requesting the controllingorganization that runs the trading network, or users crowd requesting anapproval to upgrade a report, reporter or organization. Torrents and, orstandard data streams can be locked to certain users, and or passwordscombined with set unique identifiers as multi path routing is possiblevia selected user nodes. This enables private trading if so desired, andapproved by governing bodies, with this the users or organizations canchoose to only trade with specific grades of securities, users, ororganizations etc. via their privacy settings. This would be convenientwith certain trades i.e. pension funds or trusts being only allowed totrade with certain quality of investments or users etc., for example notrades with arms manufactures etc. Each transaction is given a specific“time stamped and combined users unique identifier transaction code” asthe transaction tag and a “tag payment pass code” to be given to theseller and buyer, after the tag is “paid” and acknowledged as paid, theaccounting torrent is updated to the “tag history data stream, ortorrent, with this facility a clearing house identifier if a clearinghouse is being used by the user would be added as it would be part

of the users identity code. The clearing house's unique identifier andthe amount the user was enabled to use would be affixed to the user nodeunique identifier. If a clearing house was not used, at the discretionof the exchange, a user's trades could be limited by cost, and time,i.e. the user would only be able to trade x amount till the money owedwas cleared with in set time limits, or there node account would befrozen and the user blocked. A possible stream set up would be asfollows. The cyclical update information conjoined stream setselaborated previously and in FIG. 38. An elaboration of the A and B dualcyclical update is as previously described. The B stream of users 3802,3804 updates each other's A stream and the A stream updates everythingincluding another user's B streams, the other streams update the Bstream when new information is received from the user. The B stream isthe stream which is most scanned for incoming security risks.

The C stream is the current price stream, which averages the differencebetween buying and selling orders and completed orders in the offerstream. The D Stream is the accounting stream, with cleared andoutstanding trades, unless a G stream is used, then it only containsoutstanding orders.

O is the offer stream, when a user puts in an offer for a set amount ofshares etc. at a set price for a set time, and for a set amount, theoffer is time stamped and attached with the users and nodes UI, it canbe set to be live only for a specific time, or to become live orinactive during set parameters. This stream would contain passiveorders, stop orders, stop limit orders, hidden limit orders, peggedorders, and executable quotes etc. It initially goes in the users own Ostream which updates the B stream, which updates to the A stream and isthen sent to other nodes, and when/if someone agrees then their UI is

attached to the offer, and that offer is updated to the D stream on allnodes. When an offer is put in the identifier is different for each typeof offer, or order, each has different affix, either a prefix or suffix,depending on programming. The interface can be programmed to alert auser if a trade offer within set parameters is uploaded. The E stream isthe verified information on the item such as a stock report The F streamis unverified information and tags. The F stream contains the user tags,as well as reports and all other information. With the informationtagging and negative search system previously described, this addsconsiderable functionality, as dismissing what is not desired is veryimportant to receiving relevant information. A user could set an alarmon their node to notify them automatically them when a specific stock,commodity or the like is tagged, or reported on by a specific user ororganization, or set to gather metrics of positive or negative tags orother data on a stock or any other item. Of course the alarm can be setto monitor general or specific price movements in the stock. The Gstream or transaction history stream, is not necessary, but can be usedto maintain cleared orders, and keep the D stream lighter. The timestamped UI meta data tag is attached to the order “transaction history,”the “payment needed” part of the code is updated to “paid” when beingupdated from accounting to “transaction history.”

Users can choose to limit their access to data in the D/E/F/G stream viatheir node controls as previously described. For example a user couldchoose not to receive data on closed trades unless there part of usersown history. FIG. 39 shows a scenario where the stock segmented in toA/B/C/D streams as described (reference numerals 3902, 3904), andA/B/E/F streams (reference numerals 3906, 3908) that enable thebuying/selling to be faster as the A/B streams would only have to updatethose transactions in that stream set In the visual interface C wouldalways be visible by preset, but the user can chose which other datastreams should be visible. An alternate version shown in FIG. 40, showsbuying and selling as linked separate stream sets (4002, 4004) crossupdating with buying made out of A/B/C/D/O/E/F stream and selling madeout of A/B/C/D/O/E/F stream, cross updating.

The node network architecture described above is useful to facilitatecommunication between air traffic control and aircraft, and betweenindividual aircraft Communicating updates via a private secure node netvia TCAS, ACAS, ASAS, ACSS, FLARM, GPWS, AIS-P or any, or all mix of thesystems, or any other appropriate guidance and location system. Acontrol program may be used to integrate and coordinate all necessaryinformation relying on a similar base system as a standard node net.

An aircraft's unique identifier is based on initial emperor nodelocation where the plane initially joined the network, combined withmake and model identifiers, the tail number, and the flight code. Theflight code is the part of the UI visible on the node net visualinterface. In an embodiment, air traffic control towers are consideredthe emperor nodes. Emperor nodes overlap, then update and switch controlof the data flow, as the planes move in the airspace of a new airtraffic control tower/emperor node. Air traffic emperor nodescontinually communicate with each other, and local emperors updateflight updates and each communication with the plane to a hard datastream.

In an embodiment each aircraft is a dual node, each information streamof weather, location, velocity etc. is a data stream. Each plane islinked to as many other nodes or data streams as necessary. Each planeset to notify either just the control tower, just other planes, or both,depending on of the system used (i.e. TCAS, ACAS, ASAS, ACSS, FLARM,GPWS, AIS-P) etc.

As a flight would cross multiple air traffic control zones one have A/Bupdate stream of the air traffic nodes communication as one stream, onewould have at least one other A/B stream containing the flightengineering data of the plane, such as fuel consumption etc. though mostlikely there would be multiple streams with specific engineering data,and on board passenger data etc.

A plane could run three node versions:

1.) No tethering at all through the plane.

2.) The control prime plane node with the flight information, and anadjunct node set to act as a routing tether for passengers via the nodenet This would have the passenger's devices set as adjunct temporarynodes during the flight and allowing mesh communication between thepassenger nodes on set frequencies within the plane adjunct node, or notdepending on safety needs. With the prime plane node always having theability to turn of the adjunct node if required, and the only datastream between the plane prime and the plane adjunct tether would be theamount of the data usage.

3.) Both the plane prime node and the passenger tether node run ascompletely separate nodes, with the routing tether having a separatecontrol in the cockpit, so the plane node is a private system.

In furtherance this type of tethering node would be part of the “planesafety” mode currently used on air crafts by mobile devices, and wouldallow voice, email etc., this would benefit passengers and as the Wi-Fiis under the pilot's control, and s/he could limit passenger usagemanually or set an automatic limit before it passenger usage would clashwith the planes systems.

The node net is particularly useful for coordinating logistics andsupply chains, either back end, front facing or both. In a front endclient facing with potentially each client a node with a direct paymentsystem, the store/company can personalize and advertise directly to theclient depending on the user's security settings, and organized theirordering system based location aware sales. A possible conjoined streamsetup could be as follows.

A/B as described

C stream—Client Product History

D stream—Advertising

0 stream—Ordering—i.e. from wholesaler or from factory

D steam—Accounting

T stream—Transit time of item i.e. time of order, manufacture, transit,and time it took to sell. These stream sets combine with the clients ownproduct history, the logistic companies, the manufacturers, storebuyers, and the accountants.

In an embodiment, each user and product has specific tags affixed totheir unique identifier for company usage and the streams beingsearchable for various type of analysis. Another example would be aconstruction company utilizing the present invention for accurate timingwith suppliers and workers on a construction project for the greatestefficiency, and coordinating with the clients for their specificationsand authorization, and communication updates. This would cover a supplychain and a basic plan of works for new build, i.e. planning consent,the flow plan for deliveries, the staggering of the contractors andsubcontractors i.e. builders, roofers, electricians, plumbers,carpenters, painters and decorators etc. who desire coordination witheach other, suppliers and the like. Each stream set would be oneproject, though specific files could update further stream sets asrequired, and set by the users.

In an embodiment, a stream configuration includes:

A/B as described.

C stream—The inhouse file sharers, such as architects, engineers and thelike, working on a project This stream can easily update them onprogress of works and specific details.

D stream—Client Update—including build plans, design etc.

E stream—The contractor and subcontractors.

O stream—Orders and updates from suppliers—i.e. craftspeople,wholesalers, or factories etc.

D steam—Accounting.

T stream—transit time of item or items i.e. time of order, manufacture,transit—this stream is updated by the manufacturers also, and could beautomated to indicate if an order is to be delayed and to update therelevant subcontractor.

In an embodiment, there are stream sets dedicated to a normal fileupdate, and each contractor is a unique stream set, if desired by theend user.

Similarly, in another embodiment for a retail setting each item couldhave a standard battery-based or Wi-Fi-rechargeable mini node attachedin manufacture in which the item's UI is preset to the brand or store asan emperor node network, each item's UI acting as a guarantee ofauthenticity, and each end purchaser adding their details or theirpseudonyms to the UI of the item at purchase, or at their convenience,this could allow the item to ping (via Wi-Fi, infrared etc.) the storeto greet the customer at entrance etc. If a purchaser bought multipleitems they could directly accrue loyalty points from the brand, anddepending on settings the item could ping other items of the same brandto enable real world brand interaction, which would be most interestingfor brands such as multiple items in a collection opening special offersor interactions, or offering details of interest to the user. This wouldalso work with security, as the item would be registered to the node ofpurchaser (or officially transferred to a new user/buyer), if the itemwere to be stolen, the official owner could alert the brand andauthorities, this would enable an alert to be sent out. If the thiefdisabled the node on any item not interacting could either behighlighted and relevant authorities might be able to use this asprobable cause to search. A person could also use this system to know ifan item was authentic, stolen, etc. If a person wished to be anonymous,they could still register the item under a pseudonym and proxy, ask notto be tracked by the brand, and or require the brand to use a proxy UIor to disable the node. In an embodiment, the brand e-node would keepselect UI's back for proxies as described previously, and proxy UI's inbranding could be set to shuffle on store entrance to maintain anonymityetc.

Energy distribution network using the node net streams to facilitatedirect communication of usage, from end consumers to the power plants.Usage updates to go directly to power plants, and to transmissioncompanies, analysis is done by coordinating data. With user nodes havinga origin stream from the electricity company, coordinating with theelectricity meters at users home (or work), allowing greater analyticsand instant usage updates to the power plant.

The node system of stream interconnections between power producers, andconsumers ensures that power can flow more efficiently via analytics.Transmission and distribution losses in the USA were estimated 6.5% in2007. In general, losses are estimated from the discrepancy betweenpower produced (as reported by power plants) and power sold toconsumers.

The power plants are emperor nodes, transmission companies are primes,and each end user is an adjunct, in terms of designations for uniqueidentifiers. This end user unique identifier designation would either bestand alone in a closed network, or it could be affixed to the user'sprior unique identifier from another emperor node network which has thesame identity and security identifiers needs as the electricity network.With the user nodes possibly further split and each user device beingfurther adjuncts is possible to show device usage, and each mobiledevice could power up from designated points at set prices, with billingto be set with previously coordinated contracts, or unique usage atsales points, this would be useful for filling electronic cars etc.Water, waste, and gas distribution may have similar stream set functionsas electricity described above.

Another use of a secure private node network in accordance withembodiments of the present invention would be for emergency services.Emperor nodes could represent police or fire stations, hospitals and thelike, and each user node associated with a person serving as anemergency responder.

All emergency services emperor nodes could further update a commandemperor node for coordination in emergency situations, with specificcommunication streams running between emperor nodes and other nodes.Each station and each individual responder have secured individualcommunication stream, as well as open secured information streamsbetween officers, all official communication would be stored on thelocal emperor node.

An additional difference to a standard node network would be that eachcar, truck or ambulance etc. would be the equivalent of an adjunct nodeto the initial emperor node, not to a user node. A user's uniqueidentifier designation from the origin Emperor node may be stand alonein a closed network, or it could be affixed to the users uniqueidentifiers from another allied node networks for ease of linking andmanaging information streams, depending on the users wishes regardingprivacy etc. For example a node could be logged in to multiple networksi.e. both professional and personal, as long as the securityrequirements are met, so the information streams could be updatingcontinually, and in furtherance each network streams could update anindividual tool rose, or be each stream could be color coded in a singletool rose, or an individual petals.

With a torrent-based automated integrated traffic management system,bringing benefits to both private vehicles, autonomous cars, and publictransport systems, exploiting the ability of the node net to reachusers, and key devices, such as video cameras, stop lights, or othernotice beacons for transmitting information. With the dual updatenotification and the homogeneous spread of up-datable information of thenode net enabling private auto-mobiles to avoid congestion or accidents,reducing risk of accident, as well as speeding up journeys and improvingtraffic flow. In the case of buses, speeds can be adjusted to maintainschedules and avoid bunching while trains can be informed of dangers upthe line.

Integrating public traffic management with private users to maximizeefficacy of information, allows users to directly update personal inputsto the traffic information network, allowing user proximity toaccurately predict traffic, such as public buses etc. Allowing satellitenavigation and weather forecasting, and proximity pinging rates fromusers nodes in traffic (if the user node is a vehicle) in planningjourneys and then adjusting routes in real time as events unfold.Adjusting dynamic message signs, roadside information transmitters,traffic counters, and automatic incident detection equipment as neededfor smooth traffic flow etc. Automated vehicles sense their surroundingswith such techniques as radar, GPS, mesh communications between nodes,advanced control systems interpret sensory information to identifyappropriate navigation paths, as well as obstacles and relevant signage.The dual stream node net would enhance this with location pinging fromall open users, and other vehicles. Direct private user informationenabling the public transport network to be truly dynamic, andupdatable.

The AB node update is the update stream set with unique identifier (UI)designated from the origin emperor node and a time stamp on a piece ofmeta data of when information is uploaded to the stream, which the nodereads first, each times it updates or checks the stream. The update ishierarchical and dynamic, each time there is an update i.e. a user addsa file, joins a new group, community, changes there degree of separationetc., each piece of information affected would be notified vie the usersUI and them spread across the node network, and be altered on all nodes.Even anonymous information files have UI's though the users are notnecessarily personally identifiable apart from their sharing history.

To get a truly anonymous UI one would request the UI from an emperornode, as the emperor nodes may keep set percentage of pseudo randomselected UI's for anonymous designation. These are shared with otheremperor nodes and using a pseudo random number selection process.

The pseudo random UI's are mixed and re-designated to emperor nodes,with this the anonymous UI is not linked geographically to a set emperornode and the initial geographical location of an emperor node would notaffect the proxy UI. The emperors shared stream of anonymous UI's is reshuffled at set moments and the remaining anonymous UI's are redesignated. Each time an emperor is formed, the other emperors sharetheir remaining anonymous UI's and they get re shuffled.

In a payment system using the node network of the present invention, foradded security one could add scent and color as additional keys on topof any numerical, gestural or biometric keys.

The user UI is always affixed to a tag they place, however they canchose to use one or more network UI's affixed to their tags if logged into multiple networks, the networks UI's affix to the users standardizedtag base definitions on top of the standard tag and the word, phrase,image, or sound attached. Base definitions such as original language(i.e. English/Spanish etc.), semantic language i.e. regional slang withemotional context, professions, emotions positive and negative,identified or unidentified user, weighted respect for profession,weighted trust within network, average weighed trust between users suchas how often a person trusts to what degree and how their opinion istrusted by others, semantic node computer generated tags due to subjector item analysis, and tag grid positioning. For example a user's originemperor node is Alpha node network (ann01) user unique identifier isann01-579-(15491014) (the last bracketed digits being the time and datestamp. For example, (15.49 October 14th) and the user has also logged into Beta node net (bnn02) unique identifier bnn02-234-(18331115),depending on security and privacy their tags would be shared with bothnetworks as ann01-579 and bnn02-234 or if the networks were allied theuser tag could be only ann01-579 as the user joined that network first,and allied networks could share UI's. An example of a user tag for theword “funny” could beann01-579-SallyBN-001-000-000-111-022-1-1-10-0-58-3G-funny-securitysettings privacy-file name-location-website, broken down it would be(Network ID-User UI-User Public Name (SallyBN)-English 001-no semanticmeaning 000-no profession 000-identified user 111-respect 022-liked1-positive 1-trusted by 10 people-distrusted 0-Look at 9/43/59/63) Datastreams can be set to continually and randomly swap servers and/or nodesidentities in a private proxy server network, so the information can beshared/hosted amongst a private network. For example if the data streamis a website, the standard internet portal designation hosting would beswitching between proxy users, who log in to the network via the toolrose node. In furtherance, the information or “website” would be a datastream with a private designation, the UI possibly set by a user using aprivate proxy anonymous initial registrar and the UI and access to beshared in a select group, some who are chosen or agree to proxy host atpseudo randomly select times, which can change to random at a memberusers instigation, interaction with the site or file to be different fora “host” user to a general user. In furtherance the UI would be dynamic,as the server, or servers hosting the site would be dynamic. The sitewould be found via search for the site stream code name if open, or byinvitation, by individuals familiar with the original UI, name andprivacy setting etc.

Data streams can be set to continually and randomly swap servers/nodesidentities in a private proxy server network, so the information can beshared/hosted amongst a private network. For example if the data streamis a website, the standard internet portal designation hosting would beswitching between proxy users, who log in to the network via the toolrose node. In furtherance, the information or “website” would be a datastream with a private designation, the UI possibly set by a user using aprivate proxy anonymous initial registrar and the UI and access to beshared in a select group, some who are chosen or agree to proxy host atpseudo randomly select times, which can change to random at a memberusers instigation, interaction with the site or file to be different fora “host” user to a general user.

In embodiments, the IP is dynamic, as the server, or servers hosting thesite would be dynamic. The site would be found via search for the sitestream code name if open, or by invitation. The person or personsfamiliar with the original UI, name and privacy setting etc., couldallow further user limited abilities in hosting or managing the sitestreams. The site stream could be replicated on multiple nodescontinually updating one another. The site stream could be replicatedwith a new UI if the full information was shared by one of theoriginators of the site, though it would have a new UI. With this setup, the website would be invisible to the internet within certainsecurity parameters or visible and hosted on a static server if desired.

The origin emperor node acts similar to standard server regardingmessages, though the user can designate a new emperor to act as their“emperor server” and if the user changes their physical location forlonger than a set time, for example two weeks, the node prompts the userto verify if they wish to change their local emperor to this new locale.If the user agrees, the users files stored on their previous emperor aretransferred to the new emperor.

The meta data tags are shared across the emperors, but not always thecomplete files—if a file is requested in a local often, and it is not inthe local emperor, the local emperor retrieves it from another emperoror emperors containing the file or files. If a user requests a file fromtheir local emperor which it does not contain, the user is forwarded toeither an open user with the file, multiple open users, or otheremperors, or a combination of both emperor and user nodes. For example,when a new single is released from a world renowned singer, its file,due to high demand would be replicated across multiple emperors anddepending on copyright and settings from the origin publisher; it couldalso be shared across user nodes. In yet another embodiment, publisherscould allow open streaming with a scramble on the file if an attempt ismade to open the file without permission.

In an embodiment, each node has information streams, and stream sets.Stream sets are interlinked updating streams with multiple files, streamsets can also be interlinked and grouped, for example a user might set atool rose as an accounting rose, each type (such as mortgage, utilities,food, transportation, clothing, further refining to which store, whichcredit card, loyalty points if any, and the like) of expenditure couldbe set to a select petal, and each would be a basic updating stream orstream set One petal possibly showing the amount, one the percentage ofexpenditure etc., one showing the net positive or negative of theperiodic and prospective expenses and income etc., the multiple streamscombining to feed the tool rose the information and update the averagesetc.

Selected streams from individual stream sets can form new stream sets.For example, a node would form a new messaging stream set by mergingmultiple streams from multiple users.

In an embodiment, there are four main structures for holding tags orfiles that are dependent on the user's security settings. All user tagsare maintained by a user's node, and all emperor nodes. All user tagsare maintained by the user's node, and the local emperor. All user tagsare maintained by the user's node, and specific private network emperornodes.

All user tags are held by user, and are only visible when a user deviceis online and streaming. As user's tags contain their UI, the user candelete all user tags at request from any one of the user's nodesdependent on their security settings, or they can or selectively deletecertain tags, or change the degree of separation etc. Though all tagsand meta data shared to an emperor node and (dependent on userssettings) will be indexed and used, the open files may not be, dependenton the emperors own security or usage settings.

The tool rose interface of the present invention is now discussed withreference to various embodiments and figures. The tool rose can bevisualized and or projected in a 360 degree way, and maneuvered to showdifferent sides, with each segment or panel opening to show furtherinformation (like an orange or puzzle box), this real world 3D memorycan aid file placement recall. The tool rose can be multiplied in tovarious specialized versions of its self, in 2 or 3d, and be moved topreferential position on a screen and rotated, or if projected it can berotated, either via voice, gestures, touch, or moving a cursor. The toolrose can change the direction of its input to suit multiple languageformats, such as standard western alphabets (i.e. left to right),Oriental (up to down), or Arabic (right to left) so native ways ofcommunication are not disrupted as each way of imputing information isdifferent The tool rose segments can be set to vibrate, ping a noiseand/or flash different colors and at set, or different rhythms (such asaccelerating in urgency), so as to alert the user when a message ornotification comes in, such as a program has finished its task, acommunication is received, or as a set alarm for an appointment etc.Different rhythms of vibration, flashing or noise can be used to notifydifferent programs, people or urgency. In furtherance, each petal of atool rose can be updated by a designated stream, or multiple streams,and each stream can be set to a specific node or another user's updatenews stream etc. In elaboration, a notification can also be an alarm,such as a flashing 15, then 5 minute warning for an appointment, eachwarning in a different color or tone, or the time remaining in anauction etc. The segments of the tool rose are dynamic, and can be movedfor personal optimization of the user experience. The tool rose can beset to be opaque or transparent like a watermark, as this is easier onthe eyes of the user and frees up screen space. The tool rose can haveas many multiple segments, or multiple tool roses added as the userrequires, as this is particularly useful for linked multiple devicessuch as linked smart watches, smart phones and the like, where thescreen size is even more important, (with a tool rose node networkideally) and the user device could call up a tool rose segment from ahigher-ranked device with more resources such as memory, storage,processing power, and the like, or additional node devices. For examplea smart watch could have three minimal versions of the tool rosepresent, linking with further major versions on the phone allowing tosynchronize certain files directly via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or the like.The tool rose can be either a platform and operating system controllingand linking multiple devices in a heterogeneous manner, or anapplication program within a device's operating system like abrowser/search program, or an application adjunct leaching on anexisting browser/search, the information collected by the tool rose caneither stored and or shared by the user on their device, or network ofdevices or contacts, or stored on an external server (such as the dualnode system). The information collected, such as various file types, orother data, can then either shared directly via the program, oroptimized for various devices before sharing. The informationautomatically syncing across multiple devices and networks depending onthe users presets. The initial basis of the information can also beidentified and optimized either automatically or by the user (viatagging or allowing heuristic analysis) to aid search, security, orpayment, for themselves, their network, or the rest of the communitydepending on privacy settings of the initial information sharer and theend down loader. When the user saves a file, they can choose 1, 2, or 3,etc. primary sites (and or devices) and/or multiple (ghosted) short cutsto aid cross referencing in search. The tool rose has functionality forautomatically filling and cross referencing tagged or identifiedinformation, or information sources, across devices if user desired,such as creating a file containing all emails, text's, word files,photographs, etc. from either a select user or users, or networks, orusing selected key words, or other meta data, thus enabling easierorganization.

Selecting files to be short cuts/ghosts between devices, enabling fullcross device access when devices can communicate, and allowing minordevices to maintain lighter hard drive use. For privacy, the tool rosemay incorporate a geo-locator switch into the tool rose browser orapplication with an IP portal swap function operating via the nodes, orstandard servers. Similarly, the tool rose may have a 2- or 5- or 7-pageetc. back history delete as automatic privacy setting and have theapplication login to servers via multiple random proxy locations via thenode net before starting browsing or searching. The user can chose arandom privacy path, with a random end local, or have a set local (suchas set to US, UK, EU, etc.). Also the users in the privacy setting canset or adjust how many proxy users or people can use their location, andwhat degree of separation in their settings if any. For example, onemight allow a friend of a friend using him or her as a proxy, as thereis trust that they are not doing anything bad, but would not want astranger using him or her as a proxy. As each tool rose if it was in thedual node network described above has a unique identifier, informationwhich was shared directly (if it was taken out of the networkre-formatted and uploaded again, this would change tracking identifiers)could be tracked across the network and in the case of copyrightedfiles, each share would collect the identifiers. A file can be set onlyto open via the tool rose and only when receiving a streamed signal keyfrom the origin server, otherwise the information could be set toscramble and, or destroy itself. With this copyrighted files could beprotected. Information sharing via independent decentralized networksunder proxy or anonymous settings would not always be able to collectand send identifiers to originators. If integrated with the scentsystem, alerts can also be done using scents. Each piece of tagginginformation shared via the tool rose to be rewarded with anon-decreasing point of social currency, the more open to the tool rosesearch community, the greater the social currency earned. Inembodiments, the tool rose is user-specific, not device-specific, so toshare across devices they preferably receive authorization passwords. Inembodiments, the tool rose has individually illuminable petals, socolors and brightness or intensities can be assigned to the individualpetals as the user chooses to configure them. For example, when a useris assigning a specific function, or functions, or stream sets to theindividual petals. In embodiments, each petal has a pre-determinedcontrasting shade as a preset, to enable users to see the informationlayers easier. The tool rose, upon encountering an application, canreceive instructions from the application as a preset on how toilluminate the petals, for example based on functions or controls usedin the application. In embodiments, the tool rose petals can changeillumination based upon how recently a petal was selected by a user;they can either fade from the most intense color or brightness when inuse to eventually gray scale so that their color indicates that thepetal has not been used for awhile. Frequency of use of the individualpetals can be tracked by the tool rose, and the most frequently usedpetals can be shifted to a location on the tool rose that is mostconvenient to a particular user, for example to the left side of thetool rose if the user is left-handed, or into the center position if itis a larger area than the surrounding petals. The center of the toolrose can be a mode-change button that causes the tool rose to present aseparate grouping of functions mapped to the petals so that a highnumber of functions can be grouped to instances of the tool rose. Thetool rose can have a recursive property where, when you activate onepetal or rose or roses, all the other petals or roses which areassociated with related functionality are activated etc. For example, ifyou use the tool rose to edit a document, as well as listen to music,one petal or rose for the document editor and another petal or rose forthe MP3 player. But when you select the document editor, while musiccontinues to play over your device, all of the displayed petals arerelated to the document editor. Then you can back up, perhaps by hittingthe center of the tool rose, and select the mp3 player petal that willturn all the displayed petals into mp3 player controls. Each program onthe tool rose could be associated with set a color way—i.e. blue forwork, word processing documents etc.; red for music, yellow for video,and the like. These selections may be preset, or defined by userselection. The symbols representing the programs or files on the toolrose petals are changeable, so that the user has increasedpersonalization of the tool rose. They may either use standard symbolsfrom the tool rose, or the applications standard images, or user's ownimages. The tool rose petals can be “pinned” open, and the tool rose canbe left asymmetrical with the petals open for quicker access. This isespecially useful for host devices having a solid state cache. Bysetting a specific priority notice for a person, organization and thelike, the user is not notified on every message, just the importantones. Also a petal, tool rose or program can be set to openautomatically when receiving a message, notification, or update from apriority person or organization etc. For example, a person could bewaiting for an email, SMS, video, and the like, from a specific personor organization, and want to be notified immediately, in furtherelaboration a person receives an email with a spreadsheet attached andwanted an application to open the spread sheet automatically on receipt,as long as the security settings were open to this option from aspecific sender and the programs limited to a select few it would be aconvenience and not a security risk—another example a security softwareupdate could be set to automatically trigger a scan. In embodiments, auser may set multiple tool roses to different languages. With much ofthe world being multilingual it is useful to sort files into English andSpanish (or Chinese, etc.), for example, and have separate versions of aword processing program to open with appropriate spell check functionsapplied. Rather than just the petals expanding, or the tool rose beingovertaken by a set of files, a user can instantiate a set of multipletool roses i.e. one for documents, another for images etc. this could beautomatic, or up to the user.

In embodiments, when a petal or rose opens a program or a page in thebrowser, document, picture, or video type etc., that controlling petalor its host tool rose is highlighted or enlarged to show that it iscontrolling that application. 26 B) The tool rose could be linked with abrowser and all petals could be browsing tabs, each layer or color orsize of petal to can be set to specific types of pages, i.e. top bluefor news, bottom red social etc. As the tool rose can act as a node on auser's device, an action on any one device, tablet, jewelry device,desktop and the like can be duplicated on any other device supported bythe tool rose once the user is logged in, as long as at least twodevices with the information are capable of sharing the information i.e.via standard service providers, or via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, infra-red, andthe like. When the tool rose is part of the dual node net, it can usethe user's open communication to proxy bounce information packetsanonymously depending on the users security settings, i.e.—If the usersdevice has Wi-Fi, wan, open Bluetooth, infra-red etc. or another opencommunication system, an information packet can bounce from one user toanother in an open node bounce network, such that the user could set theinformation to be sent via degree of separation setting, or a specificnetwork, so when the node spots another node within the parameters itbounces the information across as a zipped sleeper packet, the carriertool rose node may, or may not be informed of the sleeper packetdepending on their, or the originators, security settings, with thesleeper packet only opening on delivery to the appropriate tool rose(s)or node(s). If the user had logged in under a proxy, privacy request,the random generator would give them an anonymous location identifier,but the originator user must still must know the identifying code of thetool rose or node they want the information to be delivered to, or theycould chose a specific network or emperor node to deliver theinformation packet to, but most users' security filters could typicallybe set to filter open messages as junk. The user receiving the privatemassage would be able to respond to the anonymous tool rose. With thissystem the users can use each other as a service network and would notneed to use a standard service provider for multi-way communications.Open messages could be posts in an open forum hosted on the emperornode. The tool rose can be closed, open, or invisible to networksdepending on the user's privacy settings, it can also be timed to bevisible at select occasions, and only then gather or release informationpackets.

Rather than adhere to a 360-degree view of a 3D representation of thetool rose, like a scroll bar, the rotation to a desired configuration ofdisplayed functions on the tool rose can vary based on the amount offunctionality packed onto the tool rose: the user may to spin it two,three, or N full 360 degree rotations to display and activate a desiredset of functions on the tool rose. When a petal pops open a page in thebrowser, document, picture, or video type etc., that controlling petalis highlighted or enlarged to show that it is controlling thatapplication. The tool rose could be linked with a browser and all petalscould be browsing tabs, each layer or color or size of petal to can beset to specific types of pages, i.e. top blue for news, bottom redsocial, etc. When users go to tag information in the tool rose, pasttags will show, also the tool rose heuristics will also suggest tags,users will be able to tick box, or highlight specific tags to agree withthe definition to earn social currency. In the tool rose, users caninstantiate duplicate versions of the same program, in the petals and inmultiple tool roses, and link the petals to duplicate. For example auser could set up one tool rose to be in English, another in Spanish,and link a pair of petals in each rose to constantly update a program,for example a document program which automatically updates the dualdocuments, one in Spanish, one in English functioning like an automatictranslator etc. The tool rose program's meta data in the tag, would havea timed and mapped location notation of where on the screen the tag wasplaced by the user (or professional tagger for retail applications orproduct placement), as this would in effect give a virtual screen shot,and would allow the key tag of the system below key word or imagerecognition based on a combination of heuristic strings and user tags,then either the key word, or image becoming automatically active, or akey tag becomes automatically active.

The key word/image/tag activates in that manner that either becomes ahyper linked to the key word website, or other site such as retail, thiswould work in for brand recognition and in research. Contextualheuristic analysis to the positional grid tagging to enableidentification in still, as well as moving images. The user tags arevisualized if desired by users in the user interface, for example thetags could be in different colors or shapes depending what emotion,profession, etc. tags to be placed on a two- or three-axis grid, to showwhere the user is placing the tag. The tag position on the grid to besearchable by users. The tool rose can grow segments or petals ofinformation like a flower calyx, using for example a golden spiral ratioto maintain visibility of the information. As the petals wrap around thecenter point, and the petals are not on the same vertical line as theirdirect neighbors, this would allow them to be very close together whilein the closed bud phase, and grow as needed. In embodiments, the toolrose can have a setting where each rose or each petal function may havea different sound and/or trigger a different scent release. Each petalor button having a different tone and or vibration, such as ultrasonicvibrations, for example. The tool rose is incorporated into wearableembodiments or mobile devices and alternate message notification. Forexample, one could have a communication device set on silent, but toscent and or specific vibration, either mechanical or ultrasonic. Oneperson in a contact list could be identified as a slow vibration and ascent of fresh bread and flash blue, while another could trigger therelease of a scent of metal and cause the tool rose to vibrate quicklyand flash red. This would also be useful for the blind or sightchallenged. The tool rose nodes, when used as a virtual realityinterface, or in a virtual reality interface, via projection or overlay,can be planted in set positions on an x/y/z grid, to aidethree-dimensional memory placements. The tool rose can also interfacewith projection and overlay units to create a set of overlay locations,where each reality may have alternate roses planted in the same gridlocation, but accessing a different rose as the base reality locationwould be different. Each rose and each petal have a base code, which ishierarchical based on time created, and further base descriptors suchas, last grid position, file type, color, if a short cut or ghost file,name, shared with which devises or other users attached in the metadata. Each petal can be a note, file, photo etc. (as previouslyexplained), each petal can link and duplicate to a new tool rose, oranother pre-configured tool rose, or simply be moved to another new orpre-made tool rose. A tool rose can have its own stream, and a petal canhave is own stream, or simply be part of a tool rose stream. As the baseaddress petal is linked in a stream, if duplicated it would be ghostedin a new tool rose and keep the base designation with the addendum addedof the new tool rose.

Directing attention to FIG. 41, tool rose 4100 links and interfaces withvarious browsers to maintain tagging across different sites on theinternet, and identifies various programs and files to enablecross-tagging for personal cross-referencing of file types. A segment oftool rose 4100 is available for advertising to unidentifiednon-subscribers. Tool rose 4100 presents a plurality of functionalbuttons to a user that allow enable a user to perform tagging inaccordance with the present invention. A user can generate a tag byselecting generate tag button 4101. Friend finder button 4102 allows auser to find other individuals with similar interests or tags. Searchfunction 4103 provides functionality for a user to search as describedabove. Emotional tag 4104 allows a user to tag content with a symbolconveying the user's emotional reaction to the tagged content. Save tofile function 4106 allows a user to capture content to local or cloudstorage. Rating function 4108 allows a user to tag content with a ratingindicator. Messages function 4110 allows the user to draft messages thatare inserted into tags. Login/Settings function 4112 allows a user toperform login functions and manage login settings for various websites.Quick links button 4114 presents a plurality of URLs convenient towhatever context or state the user is in, for example the context orstate can change as a user moves from connection to one website toanother website. Notes function 4116 allows the user to draft, edit,store, or read notes associated with user context or state. Trustedbutton 4118 allows a user to endorse through tagging a website byplacing an indication that the site is trusted by the user. Public notes4120 allows a user to publish notes through tagging to other usersregarding a particular site. Tool rose 4100 can be clicked or touched tobe opened on a user device, and can run in background mode and remainactive continuously. Tool rose 4100 is especially useful for usersbelonging to social networks, as short message to social network button4122 provides a broadcast function to a subset of individuals belongingto the social network who are in communication with each other.

The tool rose is useful with a wide variety of files. Directingattention to FIG. 42, tool rose 4200 can be used with word processing ordocument files 4202, image files 4204, audio files 4206, video files4208, and browser files 4210, such as webpages.

Use of the tool rose is shown as a sequence of steps in an exemplarysequence of steps shown in FIG. 43. User 1 is going to buy a car, andcreates a private car tag file with tool rose 4100 at step 4302. At step4304, user 1 browses online and reviews different makes and models ofcars, tagging the ones s/he likes. At step 4306, user 2 sends files ofcar safety reviews to user 1, who then downloads them and tags themusing tool rose 4100. At step 4308, User 1 sees a car s/he likes, andtakes a photograph of it using a digital camera, and tags the photographfile using tool rose 4100. At step 4310, user 1 is watching a movie on asmart TV, and when s/he sees a car, s/he tags it with tool rose 4100 andtags the movie with a car tag file and vintage BMW. At step 4312, user 1listens to a car review podcast, tags it with tool rose 4100, and makesa note of the cars s/he likes. At act 4318, user 1 is talking with user2 about which of the cars s/he is thinking of buying. User 1 sharestheir private car tag file torrent with user 2. With this sharing, thetorrent is updated to any of user 2's devices with tool rose 4100,enabling user 2 to view the photographs of the cars, listen to audiofiles, read documents, etc., at their convenience.

While tool rose 4100 is shown as a two-dimensional image, it can also beimplemented as a three-dimensional image, as shown in FIGS. 45-46. Toolrose 4100, 4200, 4500, 4600, as shown, can be a spherical or otherthree-dimensional shape that displays one set of icons on one view, butallows the user to manipulate it through a touchscreen or other methodto rotate the image in three-dimensional space, thus concealing thefirst-displayed set of icons and revealing another set of icons. Thismay be useful where some functions are used with certain files but notothers. It also allows the user to focus on a simpler image, thusreducing eye fatigue on the user. Also, a portion of tool rose 4100,4200 and tool rose 4500, 4600 can expand open to present a better view.Tool rose 4100, 4200, 4500, 4600 can be a transparent image, showingonly faint lines to show the user that it is present while obstructing asmall area of a displayed file, until tool rose 4100, 4200, 4500, 4600is selected by the user for tagging of the file.

Directing attention to FIGS. 47 and 48, tool rose 4700 may be configuredwith a control switch 4800 for login operation and settings. Controls oncontrol switch 4800 may include change password/email control 4802,generate another tool rose function 4803, configure color/appearancecontrol 4804, reconfigure buttons or petals 4806, link social networksbutton 4807, and the like.

Similarly, in FIG. 49, tool rose 4900 has a plurality of functions suchas tag by identity and trust 4902, notes 4904, short message to socialnetwork 4906, quick links 4908, control switch and login 4910, messages4912, rating 4914, save to file 4916, emotion tag 4918, friend finder4920, public notes 4922 and general tags.

FIG. 50 shows tool rose 5000 having a tag by identity and trust petal5002 after a user selects it, thus expanding it for display. This petal(FIG. 51) of the tool rose allows additional details to be included suchas degree of trust or distrust, degree of like or dislike, as well as auser-entered descriptor for a tag and an indication as to whether or notsomeone is known to the user in real life.

FIG. 52 shows how tool rose 5200 can be developed through additionalcircumferential layers placed around the original layer of petals. Uponcreation by the user, the additional layer of petals is blank, and theuser may custom configure them to control desired functions.

FIG. 53 shows tool rose 5300 with an expanded string of petals. In thisembodiment, upon selecting a petal from tool rose 5300, a string ofpetals 5302 is displayed to the user in a linear format. Similarly, inFIG. 53, petal 5304 upon selection displays to a user a search bar thatallows positive searching negative searching and advanced searchcapabilities.

Directing attention to FIG. 54, tool rose 5400 can be manipulated by theuser to provide search function based on a string such as “Blue SkyRose.” A standard search highlighted expansion 5402 can break downindividual words in the search string. Advanced search 5406 createsmovable tabs 5410, ad further advanced search 5408 can provideadditional search capabilities based on individual words in the searchstring such as degree of separation, profession type, emotion type,location type, and the like.

FIG. 55 shows multiple results from a completed search using tool rose5500. Placement of the individual words in the string may determine theorder of highlighting of returned search results.

FIG. 56 shows search results 5600 that allow display of tags placed onsearch results. These tags.

FIG. 57 shows tool rose 5700 having numeric labels on its individualpetals. When a user selects a petal, it expands into a new instantiationof a tool rose, such as tool rose 5702.

Tool roses may be linked together in a helical structure as describedabove. Directing attention to FIGS. 58-59, the user can manipulate helix5800 with a finger, and select individual tool roses from associatedpluralities of tool roses for operation or configuration. Also, toolroses may be created as a plurality, saving a user time by simplycreating a helix of blank tool roses that a user may subsequentlyconfigure as desired. Tool roses have been illustrated thus far as oneof two shapes, but it is to be understood that a wide variety of shapescan be utilized in connection with the tool rose of the presentinvention. As shown in helix 5900, tool roses are square, round, ormulti-sided.

Eye strain and mental fatigue are a problem for computer users.Directing attention to FIGS. 60-61, tool roses 6000, 6100 can bedisplayed in alternating colors, for example black alternating withwhite. Similarly, color can be used for the tool rose as shown in FIG.63. Tool rose 6302 shows various colors assigned to individual petals ofa tool rose instance.

FIG. 64 shows a tool rose 6400 having strings of petals assigned tovarious numeric values. In this embodiment, 1, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 12 aresingle file, folder or application petals. 2, 3, 9, and 10 are multiplepetal sets. Petal 3 is shown linked to five other files, folders orapplication petals. 4 is linked to three other tool roses, shown here as4a, 4b, and 4c. Petal 5 is linked to another tool rose 6402.

Tool roses are expandable as branches from other tool roses. Directingattention to FIG. 65, there is shown tool rose 6500 having branch C thatincludes directly linked tool roses and subsets of tool roses linked totool rose through one or more intermediary tool rose instances. Multiplebranches may be configured, as shown in FIG. 66. Here, tool rose 6500has branches 6602, 6604, 6606. Layouts of branches can take a variety ofuser-selected variations, shown in FIG. 67, where tool rose 6700 has abranch 6702 in direct contact with tool rose 6700. FIG. 68 shows toolrose 6800 having branches 6802, 6804 of varying sizes. FIG. 69 showstool rose 6900 having an alternating pattern of monochrome tool roses toreduce eye strain. FIG. 70 shows tool rose 7000 having branchesattached, and when one tool rose on the branch is selected, such as toolrose 7002, that tool rose is enlarged and enhanced with an additionalindicator, such as color, to show that this is a selected tool rose froma branch. For economy of screen space, as shown in FIG. 71, tool rose7100 can be compressed to minimize tool roses that are not in use, whileenlarging one that is selected.

FIG. 72 shows tool rose helix combination 7200. This is particularlyuseful in collaborative settings, where multiple tool rose helices areassociated based on a common link. However, tool rose helix 7200 can beused simply to organize a large number of tool rose instances for asingle user, for example in an editing environment as shown in FIG. 73,where the user is fusing helix combination 7200 to review and/or editweb page 7300.

Directing attention to FIGS. 74 and 75, tool rose 7400 and 7500 maydisplay images in the individual petals of the tool rose. As describedabove additional rings of petals can be added to the tool rose, as toolrose 7500 has an additional ring of petals placed around the first ringof petals.

Directing attention to FIG. 76, the tool rose search function caninclude tab 7602 that expands for a standard search, a negative searchtab 7604 that highlights the standard search's search terms, andsuggested search terms and movable tabs 7606.

FIG. 77 shows the various searching options 7700 where each optionexpands upon selection by the user.

Encryption and Security

The tool rose can contract and expand its size at the users prompt or ata pre requested or automatic programmed response to minimize its impact,i.e. on a screen grow from a pea sized rose to something that takes upthe whole screen, or if projected, grow from a walnut to a beach ball orbigger etc. In furtherance if idle for any length of time the rose, orroses could shrink back to their minim, unless pinned open.

Dissemination of messages or information using the tool rose and nodenetwork under high privacy settings—via breaking/splitting up andscrambling the initial message in to random component parts via adynamic algorithm, each segment of information part of the whole, whenall [or over a certain %] pieces of the information are collected theinformation/messages reforms at the end user's tool rose, if the enduser has the key.

FIGS. 78 and 79 represent the two portions of the cryptographic processfor encrypting information sent between nodes of the present invention.Pseudo-random number generator 7800 is a dual-oscillating numbergenerator that produces values based on a prime number spin or othercryptography set in a three-dimensional space. Number generator 7800 isfiltered by sieve 7900, visualized as an outer shell placed over aspinning pseudo-random number generator 7800. The outer shell or sieve7900 points filter to dynamic random proxy user locations. The amount offilter points are selected by a user who decides how many fracturepoints to split the information, combining with a user-initiated spin ofsieve 7900, the velocity of the spin of the initial message combiningwith the body of the message and the position and size of apertures insieve 7900 and the user-initiated spin of the shell (also apseudo-random velocity), all combining into a pseudo-random number keyattached to each fragment of information with is randomly dispersed viathe dynamic location proxy bounce network. This is a virtual visualinterpretation of fluid dynamic equations combined with standardcryptography and biometric keys. The cryptography fracture and spin setsmultiple cryptography key at layers, each fractured piece is a real orfake piece of a key, one key is only apparent when sufficient pieces arein place, then the end user then needs the other key to unlock the itemencrypted.

A dynamic location proxy bounce network is how information or part apiece of information such as a fractured piece of torrent stream, can beshared by users of the node network who consent for their node to beused as a proxy, in particular their current IP and the like. Here,information bounced is routed directly or held in the cache dependent ofthe settings of the users involved and messages meta data un-accessed bythe intermediate node. If the nodes were location aware (via GPS, IP,and the like), and if location was an important aspect to the message itwould be in the meta data of the message and affect the routing, and onecould have a message bounce around a select location though many nodestill the correct user arrived. One can set the proxy filter on your nodewith the same refines of the other emotional routing filters.

Tool Rose Glove and Wearable Interfaces

The glove, or palm amulet shown in FIG. 80 herein described as thepalmulet in this configuration is designed to work primarily with thetool rose user interface shown 8002 and node network, to allowcommunication streams to function smoothly between devices in a personalnetwork. The amulet of the palmulet is designed to have exchangeablecasing 8016, so there are multiple embodiments apart from the primarydesign. The palmulet goes from the wrist joint 8012 to the knuckles8010, not restricting movement of the hand or wrist, by having thepalmulet on this area of the body, you have use of a broad surface ofthe back of the hand to interact with, its particularly useful for womenor children, because smaller wrist dimensions makes smart watches withan adequate screen size infeasible or too bulky to ware comfortably.FIG. 80 shows the standard palmulet, FIG. 8008 showing projector, FIG.8006 showing a camera, FIG. 8014 showing a microphone, FIG. 8004 showinga speaker, FIG. 8018 showing a scent emitter, FIG. 8020 a bio sensor.The size of the movable amulet in the palmulet is optimized for the backof a user hand, the palmulet is a held in place on the top of the handfrom wrist to finger knuckle, it doesn't wriggle around the wrist like asmart watch or smart bracelet As the unit is primarily designed to fiton the back of the hand for viewing screen and easy interaction reasons,you can have various finger gestures as controls either on the touchscreen or filmed by the camera, some gestures set as alerts so if a useris security conscious and walking late at night and they are concernedsomeone is following them, they could set a gesture to start filmingnotify someone specifically or do a broad alert and call emergencyservices after a set interval if they don't counter the gesture. Therecan be ranges of gestures, so if a gesture was innocuous a user wouldn'tfeel a fool at initiating the alert in case the person that wasconcerning them was not a certain danger, or have an obvious gesture ifthey were a certain, and the user wanted the danger alerted that theywere being filmed and help is on the way.

As the central amulet unit can be moved from the original palmuletcasing the casing can be made easily compatible for left or right handedpeople, the casing possibly formed by 3D printing, the amulet can bemoved to a broach casing to a necklace casing and so on, furtherpossible hand based embodiments include a dedicated gaming glove, a skiglove casing a biker glove casing and so on. With the variablecontainers for the amulet it is feasible that a user might have onechild hand size palmulet as a neck amulet, and a full man sized amuletused as a palmulet, each device sharing processing power and storage,prioritized controlled and connected via linked the tool rose interface,possibly the neck amulet showing a security pass, and filming an event,and the palmulet containing a viewing and control screen.

Directing attention to FIGS. 81-84, torrent-based contemplated by theinventor include a wearable pair of devices capable of fitting on ahuman head 8100. Fitting over ear 8200, device 8300 can include amicrophone 8302 and speaker 8304. This device is particularly useful forbicycle or motorcycle riders in congested areas, where indication of adangerous condition, such as an automobile getting to close to therider, through proximity detection or radio beacons placed withinvehicles, or motion sensors, or heat or sound or vibration detection.

Similarly, a pendant 8400 can be included with this functionality withmicrophone/speaker 8202, or camera 8404.

Deep Product Placement

Directing attention to FIGS. 85-90, Meta data tags have file locations,descriptions and key words, x/y/z positioning and the tool rose nodesheuristically scan documents, images, videos etc. dependent on securityand privacy settings at initial download or upon user request, aftersatisfying user security prompts. The tool rose program's meta data inthe tag would have a timed and mapped location notation of where on thescreen the tag was placed by the user [or professional tagger forretail/product placement], this would in effect give a virtual screenshot, and would allow the “key tag” of the system below Key word orimage recognition based on a combination of “heuristic strings” and“user tags”, then either the key word, or image becoming automaticallyactive, or a “key tag” tag becomes automatically active. The keyword/image/tag activates in that manner that either becomes a hyperlinked to the key word website, or other site such as retail, this wouldwork in for brand recognition and in research. Contextual heuristicanalysis to the positional grid tagging to enable identification instill, as well as moving images. The user tags to be visualized ifdesired by users in the user interface, for example the tags could be indifferent colors or shapes depending what emotion or profession etc.tags to be placed on a two or three axis grid, to show where the user splacing the tag. The tag position on the grid to be searchable by users.Users can set tags to act as hot links/deep links to specific points ona website, web page, or file, they can highlight an area and set a tagfor the whole area that is highlighted, each tag can be a variation anda subset to an original definition, or a fresh tag. The user can alsoset a tag to a petal in the tool rose. The user can use a group set ofmultiple image tags using the grid points which are part of the tagsystem to aid pattern recognition and image analysis, such as byhighlighting a section on an image or text to be transferred to a searchrequest etc. This would be useful for example for highlighting a selectitem for search in an image with many items.

What is claimed is:
 1. A dual node network system and method.